Course Highlights
- The history of phonics teaching, different teaching methods across the ages, culminating in the emergence of synthetic phonics as embodied in & exemplified by Jolly Phonics
- The five basic skills that constitute and flow through the program
- Blending techniques as central to working out unknown words, key to independent reading
- Decodable readers across the classes
- Strategies for dealing with the non-conforming 'Tricky Words'
- Activities for supporting 'struggling readers'
- Timetables and suggested schedules for the program in infant classes
- Consideration of resources, materials & assessment
- Frequently asked questions, and teachers have many of them!