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Jun 22, 2020 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
If you’re reading this, you know your phonics; you’ve simply achieved ignorance in your expertise. Stay with me.
To ‘know your phonics’ is to have developed your skills in segmenting, blending and phoneme manipulation, and to know the code (the spellings of the 44 sounds that make up the English language)*. So, again, if you’re reading this you know your phonics.
Jun 19, 2020 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
Phonics – Systematic & Incidental:
Systematic
There are approximately 175 spellings of the 44 sounds in the English Language. A high-quality systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) programme will provide a sequence of sound-spelling correspondences; ...
Mar 18, 2020 • 21 tweets • 9 min read
* REMOTE LEARNING THREAD *
The @STEP_TSA Teaching & Learning team have been working on a list of websites that are sharing resources that may support teachers, parents and carers in the event of school closures.
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Aug 4, 2019 • 27 tweets • 4 min read
THREAD 📣.
Quite simply, the first 100 high frequency words are words which occur most frequently in sentences. They are not words that ‘cannot be decoded’. They are not tricky. Children should not be taught to ‘look and say’ whole words. Proof? Please continue reading:
Teach a child to sight read ‘said’, they can look and say ‘said’.
Teach a child that <ai> can spell the sound /e/, they can read said, again, against.
