Articles tagged with: visual memory - Phonic Books

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?

Should beginner readers use ONLY decodable books?

Posted on 25th January 201016th September 2016 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Decodable Books and tagged banding, decodable books, guessing, Phonics, visual memory12 Comments

Susan Godsland has posted a useful list of ten reasons why beginner readers should use only decodable books here (I have copied it in full below). What do you think?