Articles tagged with: scope and sequence

Build solid foundations for reading success

Posted on 5th October 20212nd August 2023 in Learning to Read and tagged alphabetic code, how to teach reading, reading intervention, scope and sequenceLeave a Comment

Now that kids are back in school, teachers must make sure that they have solid foundations for reading. These foundations will ensure reading success throughout their education and beyond. Who knows what exciting opportunities lay ahead for our young readers? But first they will need to learn to read. So what are the foundations we […]

Scope and sequence – what does this mean?

Posted on 16th September 202120th September 2021 in Learning to Read and tagged phonic progression, scope and sequence, systematic phonics, vowel digraphs, vowel teams, what is scope and sequence?Leave a Comment

All phonics programmes should have a ‘scope and sequence’ but what does this actually mean? ‘Scope’ means what you are teaching When teaching reading with systematic phonics, ‘scope’ means teaching the alphabetic code. English has 44 sounds and more than 175 spellings for those sounds. So, do we need to teach them all? Which are […]