Articles tagged with: word chains

How to…write a word chain

Posted on 5th February 202431st January 2024 in Approaches to Teaching Reading and tagged word chainsLeave a Comment

In our ‘how to…’ series we are going to delve into all things phonics instruction and give you our expert advice on developing confident readers. *** First, what is a word chain? A word chain is a list of words used to develop phonemic awareness skills: blending, segmenting and phoneme manipulation. These are the underlying […]

How to…teach words with consonant blends

Posted on 27th November 202321st November 2023 in Learning to Read and tagged consonant blends, explain word building, word chainsLeave a Comment

In our ‘how to…’ series we are going to delve into all things phonics instruction and give you our expert advice on developing confident readers. *** Blending sounds together takes place in working memory which is very limited and fleeting. Words with consonant blends can be problematic. The more sounds in the word, the harder […]

How to write a word chain

Posted on 10th February 202228th February 2022 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Dyslexia, Learning to Read, Reading Difficulties, Synthetic Phonics and tagged blending, phonemic awareness, phonemic awareness activities, phonemic manipulation, segmenting, sound swap, switch it, word chainsLeave a Comment

Word chains are really important for all children learning to read, especially struggling readers. Some programmes call this activity ‘Sound swap’ (Sounds-Write) or ‘Switch it’ (Reading Simplified). Why word chains are a useful teaching tool Word chains offer children practice of the underlying skills of reading: blending, segmenting and phoneme manipulation (adding, deleting and swapping […]