Fun Reading With Phonics

For parents, carers and teachers

  • 28 video lessons

    Follow along and learn the techniques in 28 video lessons. Everything you need to prepare your child for reading fluency.

  • Over €75 worth of Resources

    Download the colourful and engaging resources for free. Use with your child and play games while learning all the time.

  • Get support and advice

    Reach out to your senior instructor, Brenda who is a former primary deputy head with more than 35 years experience.

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Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

  • 2

    Section 1: Rationale for Teaching Phonics

    • S1 1 Goals: What's In It For Me

    • S1 2 Phonics v Phonetics

    • S1 3 Key Aspects of Phonics

    • S1 4 Sequencing & More

    • S1 5 Segmenting & Blending

    • Download: Website Lists Phonics

    • Download: Glossary Of Terms
  • 3

    Section 2: From Theory to Practise

    • S2 1 The Phonics Song

    • Download: Phonics Song

    • S2 2 Teaching Ideas for the Phonics Song

    • S2 3 Phonics Actions

    • Download: Phonics Actions Flip Chart

    • S2 4 Phonics Fans

    • Download: Phonics Fans

    • S2 5 Monitoring Phonics

    • Download: Monitoring Phonemes

    • Download: Grapheme & Picture Cue Cards

    • Download: Grapheme Only Cards

    • Download Teaching Activities Booklet 1
  • 4

    Section 3: Segmenting & Blending

    • S3 1 Overview Segmenting & Blending

    • Download: Letters For Sequencing

    • Download: Phoneme Sequence Word List

    • S3 2 Word Building

    • Download: Picture Cues For Word Building

    • S3 3 Sound Buttons

    • S3 4 Jumping Phonemes

    • S3 5 Elkonin Boxes

    • Download: Teaching Activities Booklet 2
  • 5

    Section 4: High Frequency Words

    • S4 1 Overview High Frequency Words

    • Download: First 100 HFW

    • S4 2 Word Recognition HFW

    • S4 3 Word Reveal HFW

    • S4 4 Monitoring High Frequency Words

    • Download: Monitoring & Assessing HFW

    • Download: Teaching Activities Booklet 3

    • S4 5 High Frequency Word Walls Malaysia
  • 6

    Section 5: Working With Digraphs

    • S5 1 Overview Digraphs

    • S5 2 Digraph Actions

    • Download: Digraph Actions

    • Download: Digraph Sequence Word List

    • S5 3 Digraph Sound Buttons

    • S5 4 Digraph Elkonins

    • S5 5 Split Digraphs

    • S5 6 Monitoring Digraphs

    • Download: Monitoring Digraphs
  • 7

    Course Summary

    • Section 6: Course Summary

What Other Students Say

Salome Ong’ele

I needed it so much. Quite relevant to my work where I lead an early grade reading project in Africa.

Helen Murray

It was set out simply, good resources and clear explanations.

Mary Hawkes

Has improved my understanding of how to help my granddaughter to read.