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PARENTS AS A POWER TOOL: HOW TO ENGAGE THEM WITH THEIR CHILDREN'S LEARNING

It’s an age-old dilemma – how can we get ALL parents to engage with their children’s reading?

MYTH BUSTING: HAVE YOU FALLEN INTO THE CVC WORD TRAP?

This little story raises an interesting question when thinking about the balance of how much differentiation and support to give children in classroom activities…

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8 STEPS TO TEACHING THE TRIPOD PENCIL GRIP

Here is some useful info about how to teach tripod pencil grip (commonly recognised as the most effective way to hold a pencil):

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WHAT IS THE ENGLISH ALPHABETIC CODE?

Spoken words can be split up into smaller sounds, of which the smallest units of identifiable sounds in a word are called phonemes. For example, the word ‘peach’ can be split into the phonemes /p//ee//ch/. (A phoneme is expressed within slash marks /-/). The phonemes are then represented by written symbols to create an alphabetic code writing system.

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#PHONICS SCREENING CHECK

16/6/2019

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WHAT A LOAD OF NONSENSE!

Let's unpick why so many teachers are teaching nonsense words.

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#TEACHING

16/6/2019

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WHAT DOES YOUR TEACHING AND LEARNING CYCLE LOOK LIKE: EXPLORING DIFFERENT MODELS

The Teaching & Learning Cycle is nothing new, revolutionary or challenging. It's a good ol' fashioned teaching structure. You revisit and review previous learning, you teach or introduce something new, the children practise, apply and consolidate the learning. It's not set in stone, but it provides a common sense structure for phonics teaching - agree?

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#PHONICS

16/6/2019

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WHAT ARE THE SYSTEMATIC SYNTHETIC PHONICS TEACHING PRINCIPLES?

When you start learning about phonics, or teaching phonics, you realise that it's not as straightforward as some people think. It isn't just 'a few sounds and letters'. It's actually a bit of a minefield. Especially if you want to do a good job of it.

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#MYTH BUSTING

16/6/2019

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ARE WORD STRUCTURES DEFINED BY LETTERS OR SOUNDS?

A CVC word is a word like 'cat'.
A CCVC word is a word like 'stop'.
A CCVCC word is a word like 'swept'.

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#MYTH BUSTING

16/6/2019

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DO YOU KNOW WHY YOU ARE USING SOUND BUTTONS?

Why are you using sound buttons and dashes? I want you to dig deep and really think about this one.

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#MNEMONICS

16/6/2019

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WHICH MNEMONIC SYSTEM ARE YOU USING?

What is a mnemonic system?
A mnemonic system is an aid to memory. It's a way of helping learners to remember something. In phonics we are introducing young children to a large complex system of letter shapes that correspond to sounds (then trying to put it all together to read and write words).

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#PARENTS

PARENTS AS A POWER TOOL: HOW TO ENGAGE THEM WITH THEIR CHILDREN'S LEARNING

#GLASS CEILINGS

MYTH BUSTING: HAVE YOU FALLEN INTO THE CVC WORD TRAP?

#HANDWRITING

8 STEPS TO TEACHING THE TRIPOD PENCIL GRIP

#ALPHABETIC CODE

WHAT IS THE ENGLISH ALPHABETIC CODE?

#PHONICS SCREENING CHECK

WHAT A LOAD OF NONSENSE!

#TEACHING

WHAT DOES YOUR TEACHING AND LEARNING CYCLE LOOK LIKE: EXPLORING DIFFERENT MODELS

#PHONICS

WHAT ARE THE SYSTEMATIC SYNTHETIC PHONICS TEACHING PRINCIPLES?

#MYTH BUSTING

ARE WORD STRUCTURES DEFINED BY LETTERS OR SOUNDS?

#MYTH BUSTING

DO YOU KNOW WHY YOU ARE USING SOUND BUTTONS?

#MNEMONICS

WHICH MNEMONIC SYSTEM ARE YOU USING?

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