Tag Archives: what is blending?

How to teach blending

Posted on 21st May 2021 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Learning to Read, Reading Difficulties, Synthetic Phonics

I have recently listened to two podcasts about working memory and they’ve made me think how we teach reading, specifically, how we help children with blending sounds into words: Evidence Based Education Podcast – Trialled and Tested: Working Memory: https://evidencebased.education/working-memory/ […]

‘To blend’ or ‘a blend’? – that is the question

Posted on 6th June 2011 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Synthetic Phonics

What is the difference between ‘a blend’ (the noun) and ‘to blend’ (the verb)? Now that most schools are getting used to using synthetic phonics programmes some old terms are being dropped and new terms are introduced. So how do […]

What is a phoneme?

Posted on 17th January 2011 in Synthetic Phonics

Now that everyone is talking ‘Synthetic Phonics speak’ and it seems like Michael Gove will continue to do so – it may be a good time to clarify some of the terms that are being used.