English Primary

Phonics

Teaching Phonics in Early Childhood

Learn how to teach phonics to children in their early years as a crucial part of their literacy development. Two Hours- Free Course.

Link to external course

AN INTRODUCTION TO TEACHING PHONICS– ONLINE COURSE

A free accredited CPD course to take online designed for Early Years and KS1 teachers and support staff. You will gain an understanding of what is required in a phonics lesson and some ideas and tips for your teaching.

Link to external course

Oxford Child: A parents guide to Phonics

What is Phonics?

Pronounce Pure Sounds

Blend Words

Website Link click button: Oxford Child: Parent Advice and support Phonics: Learn to Read with Phonics a parents guide

MR T's Phonics

We want to make learning essential reading and phonics skills easy - and fun! We'll send you inspiration for activities, free resources, such as worksheets, advice, offers and discounts, that you can use to help your children on their reading journey. Access the website using the link below

Mr T's Phonics Website- enter your email address for lots of free resources. Use the button below for more Youtube clips

Phonics: Mr Thorne Does Phonics- a series of Videos

Phonics Play - some Free resources- Click on the Teacher ideas button for each- how to use with your class

Phonics Hero- Free for Teachers

Free booklet on spelling sounds

Free Phonics Resources

Teach Your Monster to Read. Three Songs to teach and revise Phonics with your class. The link to their website has lots of phonics bookmarks and free resources.

Teach Your Monster Phonics Website

Year 1 Phonics Screening Check-

Year 1 phonics screening check: What is it?

The Phonics Screening Check is meant to show how well your child can use the phonics skills they've learned up to the end of Year 1, and to identify students who need extra phonics help. The Department for Education defines the checks as “short, light-touch assessments” that take about four to nine minutes to complete.

2019_phonics_screening_check_administration_guidance.pdf

2019_phonics_scoring_guidance.pdf

2019_phonics_pupils_materials_standard.pdf

phonics_screening_check_sample_materials_-_Answer_sheet.pdf

SAT Papers English from 2016 onwards

Year 6: 10 Books for reading aloud with the class: Blog

Writing for a purpose; A blog by Michael Tidd @MichaelT1979

Literacy Shed: An online resource containing lots of stimulating videos for teaching English creatively using videos.

A website that is rich in the latest research and pedagogical approaches for teaching English.

5 Vocabulary Teaching Myths by Alex Quigley @HuntingEnglish

Quick Story Prompts

A document with a selection of resources for English, Maths, Science & Computing shared by @MRMICT

Teaching Spelling using Phonics in Key Stage 1: Blog by Sophie Bartlett @_MissieBee

High Quality Picture Books for Cross-Curricular PlanningA range of picture books to be used throughout the curriculum in order to inspire critical thinking, drama and cross-curricular planning.

Picture books for reading

This is a very useful padlet for a range of high-quality texts for use in English, as well as for cross-curricular subjects. The books have suggested year groups as well as additional planning possibilities.

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Part 1 Time Stamps

Link to Part 1 recording and Handouts

Part 2 Time Stamps

Link to Part 2 Recordings and Handouts

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