Phonics International

I received this interesting question from a course participant: Hello, I am enjoying the course quite alright, but I have a little issue. I was trained as EFL/TESOL teacher and therefore I am very familiar with the IPA system for the 44 sounds of the English language, but not the SSP. Now, to help m...

Well, we've seen a quick turnover of Prime Ministers in England this year (2022) - Boris Johnson, followed by Liz Truss, followed by Rishi Sunak! At the time of writing this post, the current Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak of the Conservative Party, has reinstated Nick Gibb: https://www.gov.uk/governme...

We received this query and great feedback from a lady in New Zealand: May I ask when the NNP Book 2+ and Book 5+ will be available in Amazon? I tried purchasing these in your shop but there is no shipping to New Zealand. I really like your books and I have completed the Phonics International online ...

Update: The Phonics International programme provided via mainly pdfs (printable and projectable) is now completely free. Here is our 'shop' where ready-made resources can be purchased if preferred and where the 'No Nonsense Phonics' resources and 'Phonics Reading Books' can be purchased: https://pho...

https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&edid=da371e50-5504-49f3-875d-f551b7ede658&pnum=41 I've added a link to this article via the thread featuring Anne Glennie's formal petition urging teaching-training in the systematic synthetic phonics ...

We've just had our Phonics International 'MESSAGE FORUM' updated (technically - hooray!) and I'm taking a look to refresh and update some of the threads. I've updated a thread featuring the original announcement of the launch of our Phonics Training Online course which continues to be well-received ...

With regard to the 'flexibility' and 'fearlessness' that I'm always going on about, there are some additional documents added to the top of this list of 'FREE CPD RESOURCES' at our Phonics International site. I'm referring specifically to the topic of use of literature including selecting reading bo...

Oh my goodness, it's now seven years since we first launched our Phonics Training Online course - and it's still 'going strong' as they say! We created a forum specifically for the course, and included a 'Feedback' thread. We've heard from people all over the world in various roles and contexts from...

Dr Kathryn Garforth contributed to the very important Right to Read Inquiry in Ontario, Canada. She generously invites guests to join her in recorded discussions. The recording below is the second discussion we shared in April 2022 - this time linking the Right to Read inquiry findings and recommend...

This is a comment shared via Twitter. It's gratifying to know that people have found the 'IFERI' site as the Forum is truly packed with information and developments! If you haven't visited it yet, do take a look! Yes, IFERI is great! I'm doing one of your course at the moment Debbie - there is so mu...

Abigail Steel (author of 'Rocket Phonics' by Rising Stars) and I discuss worries over too much micromanagement of reading books according to the design of 'other' SSP programmes and training - not ours! This will provide lots of food for thought about the allocation of reading books for children's r...

Dear Debbie, I have just completed the last quiz of the course. I wonder what to do now and how I might get my certificate. Thanks for all the aditional information you have attached to the different modules of the course. I am sure my phonics teaching lessons will improve after attending this usef...

Visual experiences during letter production contribute to the development of the neural systems supporting letter perception Sophia Vinci-Booher, Karin H. James First published: 16 March 2020 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/desc.12965 Our results suggest that the visual perception of th...

Meanwhile, Phonics International Ltd has published a range of hard copy resources for use with the 'No Nonsense Phonics' programme and/or 'Phonics International' for the first six Units. These include a new series of incremental, decodable Phonics Reading Books! We are publishing these as they are c...

In England, the Department for Education has opened up another round of publishers applying for 'DfE validation' for full 'Systematic Synthetic Phonics' programmes. The current publisher of 'No Nonsense Phonics Skills', Raintree, in collaboration with Phonics International Ltd, submitted 'No Nonsens...