Synthetic phonics in nurseries - three to four year olds!
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:47 pm
When I visit schools, I am finding that they are starting their phonics teaching in their nurseries - with the three to four year olds.
I have never advocated teaching phonics to three year olds in nursery settings although I appreciate that one of my boys taught himself all the letter/s-sound correspondences in 'The Phonics Handbook' (Jolly Learning) when he was three and a half. In one month he knew the simple code to automaticity and could blend and segment words with consonant clusters in with no difficulty. Then he used to 'act them out'.
He would blend words like 'frog' and then jump round the room like a frog saying 'ribbit'.....
Anyway, I'm now working on providing some material with the three to four year olds in mind and consulting with nursery teachers wherever I visit.
If anyone has any suggestions or requests for resources, please let me know via this thread!
I have never advocated teaching phonics to three year olds in nursery settings although I appreciate that one of my boys taught himself all the letter/s-sound correspondences in 'The Phonics Handbook' (Jolly Learning) when he was three and a half. In one month he knew the simple code to automaticity and could blend and segment words with consonant clusters in with no difficulty. Then he used to 'act them out'.
He would blend words like 'frog' and then jump round the room like a frog saying 'ribbit'.....
Anyway, I'm now working on providing some material with the three to four year olds in mind and consulting with nursery teachers wherever I visit.
If anyone has any suggestions or requests for resources, please let me know via this thread!