The Professional Development DVD and Handbook provide clear, straightforward, and targeted guidance on how to use Read Write Inc. Phonics resources to deliver one-to-one tuition to children who are in danger of falling behind with their reading, or are behind their peers, or are new to a school and need to catch up. The Professional Development DVD and Handbook include: * Focused training instruction from Ruth Miskin in a series of clear, instructive video clips. These are targeted on helping teachers resolve key problems that children encounter when learning to read, such as difficulty blending or retaining sounds. * Detailed lesson plans for one-to-one tuition, which use the proven strategies of Read Write Inc. to teach reading * Assessment and progress tracking * Guidance on how to say 'pure' sounds

 

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

This book is aimed at children in primary school. 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 96 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.