A few weeks ago, I had a surprise email from a school in Estonia. One of the things I have been involved with over the years, is Jolly Phonics. It's a really useful and child friendly scheme for teaching synthetic phonics to children, so that they learn to read and spell accurately. Anyway, as a result of the email and the discussions that followed, I'm going to Estonia to deliver some Jolly Phonics training. So I've been preparing materials. It's handy for a little girl that I teach, that some of the new materials I've been making are just what she needs. Here is an example:
The English language can appear quite tricky because there are so many different ways of writing each sound. That's why it must be taught systematically and rigorously. Whilst teaching the more advanced phonetic code is more challenging, that's the bit I enjoy the most. I love working with children to investigate and find patterns and rules (and then all the exceptions).
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