Tag Archives: synthetic phonic sounds

‘Sound Snap’ – a fun way to teach ‘precise pronunciation’

Posted on 18th May 2017 in Learning to Read, Synthetic Phonics

I have just started to teach a struggling reader in Year 1. The first thing I observed from my assessment was that she did not use ‘pure phonic sounds’, also known as ‘precise pronunciation’. Many of the consonants were pronounced […]

Pip Phonics – Sounds of the Alphabet

Posted on 13th November 2011 in Learning to Read, Reading Resources

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pip+phonics&aq=f]Phonicbooks have just made a free video clip of Pip, the ant, demonstrating the sounds of the alphabet. We thought it would be a good idea to use the characters in Dandelion Books to enthuse our young readers. This is […]