Part of the Lessons in Teaching series, this book provides exemplar lessons in phonics and uses them as a starting point for learning, exploring the theory behind them, what makes them good, and how they can be adapted to suit different year groups and different schools.

Lesson planning in line with the new Primary National Curriculum!

Phonics is taught every day in primary schools across England. It is fully embedded in the National Curriculum and is a huge part of teaching children to read. How do you ensure that you understand both what and how to teach? How do you separate good phonics teaching from the many phonics schemes that are used? What does a good phonics lesson look like? This text provides exemplar lessons in phonics and supports you to teach tricky words, alternative spellings, and pronunciation as well as addressing other phonics teaching challenges. It explores the most popular phonics schemes and shows you how good phonics teaching works across schemes. The adaptable and inspired lesson plans included, highlight how phonics teaching can be fun, offering ideas for teaching phonics outdoors, whole class phonics teaching and nonsense words. Did you know that this book is part of the Lessons in Teaching series?

WHAT IS THE LESSONS IN TEACHING SERIES?
Suitable for any teacher at any stage of their career, the books in this series are packed with great ideas for teaching engaging, outstanding lessons in your primary classroom. The Companion Website accompanying the series includes extra resources including tips, lesson starters, videos and Pinterest boards.

Books in this series: Lessons in Teaching Grammar in Primary Schools, Lessons in Teaching Computing in Primary Schools, Lessons in Teaching Number and Place Value in Primary Schools, Lessons in Teaching Reading Comprehension in Primary Schools, Lesson in Teaching Phonics in Primary Schools

Auteur

David Waugh is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the the School of Education, University of Durham where he is also the subject leader for primary English.

Contenu

Introduction
Why phonics?
Phonics in context
Reception: Developing phonemic awareness
Reception: Beginning to read and write using CVC words
Year 1: Teaching grapheme-phoneme correspondences
Year 1: Long vowel digraphs
Year 1: Decoding and encoding text
Years 1 and 2: Morphemes - prefixes, suffixes and root words
Year 2: Homophones and contractions
Year 2: Phonics into spelling
Teaching tricky or common exception words
Moving on