Here is a straightforward explanation about the usefulness of decodable books for children learning to read. ‘The look on children’s faces when they realise how easy reading is – knowing the sounds and connecting them to graphemes on the page. […]
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New English Curriculum and decodable books
The new English curriculum, which will be implemented in September 2014, specifies that children should be reading decodable books as they acquire literacy. This is the flyer we are sending to schools.
Read MoreThe importance of skills practice when learning to read
Learning to read, initially, has two components: 1. knowledge – learning the graphemes and the sounds they represent 2. skills – learning to blend sounds into words and segment sounds for spelling Many teachers offer lots of fun ways to […]
Read MoreHow decodable texts help beginner and catch-up readers
The new national curriculum now requires teachers to use decodable texts with children learning to read. Children are now offered ‘controlled’ texts which include words they can decode independently, using the phonic knowledge they have been taught. These decodable texts enable the […]
Read MoreHow decodable books can expand vocabulary
Critics of Synthetic Phonics have claimed that the language of phonic reading books (decodable books) limits children’s vocabulary. Instead of enriching their vocabulary they read about a ‘cat’ that ‘sat on a mat’. To this I would say: Have you […]
Read MoreWhy are children still guessing and not decoding?
Reports are coming back from schools that despite Synthetic Phonics being taught in Reception classes, many children are failing to learn to decode. This has been reflected in the results of the Y1 Phonics Check with 58% reading 32 out […]
Read MorePHONIC BOOKS COMPETITION!!!
As we have just launched our new Phonic Books Ltd Facebook page, we are annoucing our first Phonic Books Competition! The 100th, 150th, 200th and 250th person to ‘Like’ our new Phonic Books Ltd page will win any set of books […]
Read MoreShould Systematic Synthetic Phonics be denied to our weakest readers?
The DfE has carefully approved and selected phonics programmes and resources for mainstream classrooms and ‘catch-up’ pupils according to strict synthetic phonics criteria. These are featured in the DfE Phonics Match-Funding catalogue. This follows the Jim Rose report that concludes that Systematic Synthetic Phonics […]
Read More7 fun activities using decodable books
7 fun activities using decodable books Now that decodable reading books are being used along side of a phonics programme there a number of ways to use them to develop children’s literacy.
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