Phonics International

Hi Debbie, Thanks so much for your response I just want to start by putting my questions in context, as I have obviously come across as a bit clueless in some areas! I work in a primary school and have successfully delivered some additional phonics tuition in key stage 2 and so have been asked to do...

Thanks Susan, it was interesting to read the analogy about giving children books before they can read them. However, many schools do give children reading books that they haven't a hope of decoding. ( Don't get me wrong, I'm all in favour of sharing quality literature, but just feel that children ne...

In a nutshell, I suppose my question for Debbie/ others re the context for writing boils down to this.... Should I be aiming to get the children in this situation to learn to write simple sentences based on using CVC words that are within the realms of their phonic knowledge, or should I be aiming f...

I have mainly Key Stage 2 teaching experience, but am currently running some 'catch up' literacy groups for year 1 children who are falling behind. I have considerable of training and experience in teaching phonological awareness and synthetic phonics, and this will form the basis of much of my work...

Thanks for that Debbie!

Hi. On the TES forum I found reference to a useful list of downloadable assessments that were free for on-line use. Apparently, there was a link on Phonics International homepage which listed them. Now that this site has a new look homepage, I am unable to find the recommended assessments. Are they ...