Tag: phonics
Success builds successful learners
Sarah Singleton on precision teaching for accelerating learning.
Precision teaching is a research-based intervention often highly recommended by educational psychologists and specialist teachers to help...
Shapes, lines and visual correspondence
Valerie Critten and David Messer on teaching children with cerebral palsy to write and spell.
Many children with cerebral palsy have difficulties with learning to...
Literacy catch-up
Andrea Welter on why literacy catch-up programmes need to prioritise children with SEND.
Learning gaps between children with SEN and their peers have significantly widened...
Less paper, more productivity – can screens support literacy improvement for...
Aimee Cave promotes the use of on-screen literacy assessments as a tool to enable teachers to tailor support for SEN pupils
Learning to read is...
Phonics tailored for pupils with SEN
Katrina Cochrane discusses key techniques when teaching literacy skills to SEN pupils.
Phonics are at the heart of literacy teaching in schools and the government’s...
SEN116 : January/February 2022
Read SEN Magazine SEN116: January/February 2022 here
The field of SEND is a very broad area, it embraces a wide range of specialists and...
Can all children learn to read?
Ann Sullivan looks at reading capabilities in children.Whenever asked a question are you, like me, secretly hoping that the answer will be a simple one...
It’s never too late for phonics
Sheila Mulvenney lays out the many advantages of teaching phonics at all stages of schooling.
However skilled we are as readers, even as adults we...
Focussing on phonics
Debbie Hepplewhite offers some practical ideas to support the evaluation of phonics provision in class
In support of phonics
New research confirms the effectiveness of phonics as a method of teaching reading, writes Kathy Rastle










































