Introduction
How to Use This Book
Synthetic Phonics, How and Why and How
The Rose Enquiry and Its Recommendations
Objections to Synthetic Phonics and Their Basis.
What Are the Key Elements in Synthetic Phonics Teaching?
Synthetic Phonics and Language Development
How Do We Explain and Tackle Irregularity?
How Can Synthetic Phonics Help with English Spelling?
What Are the Main Resources Available, and How Good Are They?
What Additional Techniques Can Help the Weakest Readers?
I have almost forty years′ experience of teaching people of all ages to read and write, to learn foreign languages, and to understand and use arithmetic. This website puts what I′ve learned along the way at your and your children′s service, wherever you happen to be. It also keeps a critical eye on the activities of schools, examining boards and the government, with occasional notes on other things, including music
′Synthetic phonics may well be only one tool for teaching reading and spelling, but it is the single most important one′ - Ruth Kelly, Education Secretary, March 2006 ′This is an authoritative yet lively and eminently readable book. It is well grounded in both the latest academic theory and experienced hands-on pedagogic practice, and it summarises succinctly the implications of the recent Rose Report, giving a masterly exposition of both synthetic and analytic phonics and their places in the processes of learning to read and spell. Practical and organisational issues are tackled in a most supportive way, with very useful checklists and photocopiable proformas on an accompanying CD. The book also provides and excellent guide to provision for professional development, involving the use of lesson observation and part of the evaluation and planning cycle for CPD. Its style is clear and well signposted with subheadings, case-study boxes to illuminate points, and with aims given at the start of each chapter as well as challenging points for reflection and guides to further reading at the ends. Every staff room should have one!′ - Dorothy Latham, Primary Education Consultant, English specialist and author of How Children Learn to Write
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