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Should fluent readers be taught phonics?

Posted on 15th March 201116th September 2016 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Synthetic Phonics and tagged fluent readers, multi syllables, phonic code, phonics and visual memory, phonics spellings, spelling and poor visual memory, visual memoryLeave a Comment

Some children get the hang of reading easily and become fluent readers. Is there any point in taking them through a structured phonics programme?

Why we need to teach children how to split multisyllabic words

Posted on 24th January 201116th September 2016 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Synthetic Phonics and tagged chunking long words, chunking multi-syllable words, multi syllables, multisyllabic words, splitting long words, splitting multi-syllabic wordsLeave a Comment

Most words in the English language have more than one syllable and knowing how to split them up is a really important skill children need to learn. In the past phonics programmes have not put enough emphasis on this skill. Why is this important?