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‘Sound it out’

Posted on 21st March 20236th June 2024 in Dyslexia, Language and Communication Difficulties, Learning to Read, Reading Difficulties, SEN, structured literacy, Synthetic Phonics, systematic phonics and tagged article, beginner readers, hearing difficulties, no guessing words, reading difficulties, sound it out, sound out words, structured literacy, struggling readers, systematic phonics, teaching phonicsLeave a Comment

Reading decodable book

What do we mean by ‘sound it out’ and what does it entail? When a child gets stuck on a word we often remind them to ‘sound it out’. As fluent readers, we assume this is very straightforward. We recognise these words automatically and skip all the stages that beginner readers need to go through […]

What is the point of pointing?

Posted on 14th March 202230th May 2024 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Decodable Books, Dyslexia, Learning to Read, Reading Difficulties, Synthetic Phonics and tagged article, beginner readers, how to teach reading, point to the word, pointing, reading difficulties, reading practice, reading with dyslexic kids2 Comments

Mother and Daughter reading

Often when I read with a pupil, I need to remind her/him (and myself) to point to the words. As fluent readers we don’t point to words on the page, but sometimes if we come across a difficult or new word we are trying to work out – we will use our finger to work […]