The Phonics Handbook introduces teachers to all the Read Write Inc. resources for teaching reading, writing and spelling. It should be used in conjunction with the Speed Sounds Lesson Plans handbook, which provides detailed guidance on how to teach children to read and write sounds and words. Blueprint lesson plans are provided for teaching the Ditty activities, using the Storybooks for reading and comprehension, and consolidating children's knowledge by using the Get Writing! books. Suggested timetables and instructions on partner work are also included. This edition has been fully revised and updated and includes the following new features: * step-by-step advice on implementing the programme throughout your school * improved assessment materials * guidance on developing language comprehension through talk * information about the 'simple view of reading' and how Read Write Inc. Phonics fits this model * information about new elements to the programme, including new non-fiction titles for extra practice and the revised Get Writing! Books * level matching to The National Curriculum for England, English Language 5-14, Curriculum for Excellence, The National Curriculum for Wales and The Northern Ireland Curriculum.

 

This book is part of a book series called Read Write Inc .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading book uses the Synthetic phonics method. (This can also be referred to as 'blended phonics' or 'inductive phonics'). A phonics approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences. In Synthetic Phonics, children are taught to sound and blend from the start of reading tuition. Children are taught a small group of letter sounds and then shown how these can be co-articulated to pronounce unfamiliar words. Other groups of letters are then taught and the children blend them in order to pronounce new words. The pronunciation of the word is discovered through sounding and blending, and spelling by mapping sounds to letters. Consonant blends that cannot be read by blending are explicitly taught.

There are 100 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by Oxford University Press .

Ruth Miskin is an expert in synthetic phonics with over 25 years' teaching experience. She is involved in advising the UK government on literacy training, and in training senior literacy advisers.