Part 2 – Preparing for intervention teaching
The type of support that can be provided in schools around the world varies a great deal. Several suggestions are made in this section.
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Part 1 – Early identification of problems
It is recommended that the children who are potentially at risk of having…
Part 3 – Letter-sound intervention in small groups
Several intervention activities are demonstrated for improving letter-sound knowledge.
Part 4 – Intervention activities to support blending
Many intervention activities are provided for developing the skill of blending, including auditory…
Part 5 – Intervention activities for segmenting and learning tricky words
The intervention activities in this section are geared to identifying the sounds in…
Part 6 – Evidence of effectiveness
Before using intervention teaching it is important to have evidence of effectiveness. In…
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Letter-sound Box
Print the letter sounds on one side of thin card or paper, and the appropriate words on the other side. Cut up. Use as recommended.
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Letter-sound Box - print letters
Print the letter sounds on one side of thin card or paper, and the appropriate words on the other side. Cut up. Use as recommended.
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Consonant blends
It is helpful to blend the consonant blend and learn to say it joined together.
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Consonant blends - print letters
It is helpful to blend the consonant blend and learn to say it joined together.
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Consonant and short vowel
It is helpful to blend the consonant and short vowel and learn to say them joined together.
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Consonant and short vowel - print letters
It is helpful to blend the consonant and short vowel and learn to say them joined together.
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Consonant blend and short vowel
It is helpful to blend the consonant blend and short vowel and learn to say them joined together.
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Consonant blend and short vowel - print letters
It is helpful to blend the consonant blend and short vowel and learn to say them joined together.
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Words for blending in Steps 1 - 5
Words are in squares for the children to use for blending practice. They are in the same order that is used for teaching the letter sounds. As each new letter sound is taught more words that use the new letter sound, and the previously taught ones, become available.
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Words for blending in Steps 1 - 5- print letters
Words are in squares for the children to use for blending practice. They are in the same order that is used for teaching the letter sounds. As each new letter sound is taught more words that use the new letter sound, and the previously taught ones, become available.
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Teacher's Word Bank for Steps 1 - 5
Useful words for blending practice. More words are provided as each letter sound is taught. It helps to ensure the words are decodable.
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Dr Marlynne Grant's Research - follow-up longitudinal studies
It is well worth reading the whole report. It demonstrates what can be achieved with good synthetic-phonics teaching in the classroom and, if necessary, in intervention groups.
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Ideal for the teacher who wants to gain a thorough understanding of how to teach children to read and write using Jolly Phonics.
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Jolly Phonics training is given by independent, experienced teachers who use Jolly Phonics extensively in their schools.
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Ideal for the teacher who wants to gain a thorough understanding of how to teach children to read and write using Jolly Phonics.
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An audio of the letter sounds is available on this website.
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The words are organised in a progressive way. There is a set of words, for the children to blend and read, that use each new letter sound, as well as the ones that have previously been taught.
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There are many black and white pictures that are suitable for auditory blending - as used in Part 4 of 'Preventing reading and writing problems'.
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This font is frequently used in schools, as well as in the Jolly Phonics materials.
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These standardised tests have been made available on the Reading Reform Foundation website. It is advisable to read the instructions carefully before using them.
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This is one of several pieces of research on the Sound Discovery website.
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Debbie Hepplewhite's online synthetic-phonics course for teaching reading and writing.
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This chart clearly shows the many alternative spellings linked to the sounds of English. Teaching guidance is also provided.
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It is always helpful to keep in mind the basic principles of synthetic phonics teaching. This set of principles was developed by members of the Reading Reform Foundation.
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This link is to Debbie Hepplewhite's website, which has several types of alphabetic-code charts.
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King Wizzit Series - decodable readers
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Decodable Readers - particularly suitable for children who struggle with reading (beginners, advanced and mature readers)
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Decodable Readers - Levels 1 - 4
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Decodable Readers - Sets 1 - 10
Free online flash version available -
Decodable Readers
Dandelion Launchers - initial (simple) code
Dandelion Readers - extended (complex) code
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Decodable Readers - Sets 1 - 7
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Decodable Readers - several sets starting with simple letter-sound correspondences and gradually progressing to complex
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Decodable Readers - Stages 1 - 6
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Decodable Readers - Levels 1 - 6
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Decodable Readers and online decodable ebooks
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Irina Tyk is an expert in synthetic phonics and has enabled many children to read and write successfully. The standards achieved have been exceptionally high.
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Sound Discovery was developed by Dr Marlynne Grant and is particularly suitable as an intervention programme for anyone wishing to teach children who have problems with learning to read and write.
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Mona McNee has been a strong campaigner for synthetic phonics and has successfully taught struggling children for many years. Her book is particularly helpful for parents.
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Sound Foundations was developed as an intervention programme for the children who struggle to read and write. The authors have had a huge amount of experience and success with this type of teaching.
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Sound Steps to Reading was written by Diane McGuinness, who is a leading expert on the nature and structure of writing systems and how this applies to teaching reading and spelling. It is a successful Linguistic Phonics programme, which has similar principles to synthetic phonics.
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The Sound Reading System was developed by Fiona Nevola and is based on the work of Diane McGuinness, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida. Fiona Nevola founded the charity 'Our Right to Read', provides training to teachers and tuition to struggling readers.
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Phonics International is an online course developed by Debbie Hepplewhite. Debbie is a synthetic phonics expert and has a wealth of experience in teaching synthetic phonics. Her online course has a huge amount of teaching guidance and resources in it. She also works as a consultant and provides training in the UK.
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This article is incredibly interesting and enlightening. It is well worth reading.
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This list of synthetic phonics principles was compiled by members of the Reading Reform Foundation.
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The RRF is an organisation dedicated to campaigning for better teaching of reading in the English language. This website has something to offer everyone who is interested in the teaching of reading.
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This link provides access to experimental research, which was commissioned by scientists wanting to test the effectiveness of synthetic phonics teaching (Jolly Phonics).
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Dr Bonnie Macmillan describes the findings of experimental research on beginning reading instruction. Research points decisively to the need for direct teaching of certain key skills in order to produce maximum reading success.
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Prof Diane McGuinness combines her own scientific and clinical experience with a synthesis of modern research on reading, to show how different methods of teaching reading could successfully improve standards of literacy.
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Dr. Beth Robins is the presenter for this webinar. For her doctorate she studied the research linked to beginning reading instruction in the US and UK.
She is a retired teacher and provides training in synthetic phonics.
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Elizabeth Nonweiler is the the presenter for this webinar. Elizabeth is an excellent consultant and trainer in synthetic phonics in the UK. She has given training in 19 countries.