Phonics International

Slowly but surely adding more and more to the programme with much success! I think September is going to be the real start as we are having a big staff turnover and think that this will be a fabulous time to involve the whole staff, parents and new cohort!! We have started whole school assessment of...

Our school using a joined style handwriting from Year 1 onwards and all of our current resources/text/print is in this font. It called 'boring boring' (can't believe they called it that!). The link is here: http://desktoppub.about.com/library/fonts/hs/uc_boringboring.htm It is based on the kingston ...

Have found this poster so useful already! To show/explain a particular phoneme to a parent or to use as an aid in my staff inset on phonics. Most useful of all is when explaining to children the reason their spelling was not quite correct, yet a wonderful attempt.... example: Child spells the word d...

Very brief message. Current reading assessments finished. Every child has moved up further than predicted progress! And...today young boy in my class who was not writing in sentences in Autumn term or writing words that were decodable (just lots of 'BHRRRZCFFLLPPRES' letters on page) wrote today. &q...

I have also made 2 hard copies of all the resources. (One for myself and one for the central area for others to use). All the resources fit comfortably into 4 large lever arch files, three units per folder. We have decided to make storage 'resource' boxes for each sound. Small transparent boxes cont...

Just a quick message - had to share! We started our Spring half term reading assessments today and it was such a different experience to when we initially tested in Autumn! All children looked straight at text and not at pictures clues, no eyes wandering the page desperately searching for some answe...

Not long before Christmas, our school purchased Phonics International and started to look at ways we could use it in our school. Finally we are on the road to starting our Phonics International journey and we are very excited! I am the Year 2 teacher and have slowly started to use different parts of...