ISBN: 9781473915947    Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd Year of publishing: 2015     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 176        

Phonics is embedded in the National Curriculum and is an important part of teaching children to read. Trainee and early career teachers need to understand what good phonics teaching looks like. This book provides exemplar lessons in phonics as a starting point to explore the theory behind them, what makes them good and how they can be adapted to suit different year groups and different schools. Supported with additional online material at www.sagepub.co.uk/lessonsinteaching this book: * offers support on how to teach tricky words, alternative spellings, pronunciation and address various phonics teaching challenges * explores the most popular phonics schemes and shows how good phonics teaching works across schemes * highlights how phonics teaching can be fun, offering ideas for teaching phonics outdoors, whole class phonics teaching and nonsense words
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Jane is a former deputy head teacher and literacy consultant for the National Strategies in Bristol. She is now a senior lecturer in primary education at the University of the West of England. She was recently awarded the Higher Education Academy Teaching Fellowship Award.
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