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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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