Phonic Reading Programme for Older Pupils with Poor Word Recall

A pack of 14 Phonic reading books with matching workbooks and PowerPoints.

This is an incremental phonic reading scheme with a difference. Introducing just 10 words in each phonics family, the words are repeated from book to book giving even those with very poor word recall the chance to learn to read fluently without having to decode every word.

You can view the first CK pack with a set of 30+ supporting activities and games FREE here.

Rationale:

It has long been proved that teaching children to decode is a powerful tool to teach reading as opposed to the Look and Say methods. However, this has led to a proliferation of reading books that throw as many words with a shared phonic sound into a book as possible, not realising that some children with very poor word recall find it hard to recognise words when they see them again without much repetition.

To combat this problem, while we recognise that, technically, once a child has been taught a new sound s/he can sound out many words with that new sound, when it comes to reading fluently a child needs a core set of words in each family that they can recognise, which can act as a launch pad as they gain confidence.

These books have been designed accordingly. For each sound family, just 10 words are studied and are then repeated throughout the books, each book builds on the vocabulary that has already been learned, repeating it and including it in new phrases as new sounds are learned.

The books are designed to limit guessing (though most children will try and guess and this must be avoided at all cost).

Pluses of this phonic reading programme

• Easy to print

• Cheap to buy compared with expensive reading schemes

• They are just as effective as the best reading programmes out there as they have been written by a teacher with over 30 years of experience teaching phonics to children with special needs.

• Aligned with the aims and objectives of LETRS and the Science of Reading.

• They work! My pupils tell me if they don't work - so I re-edit them are trialling them before I put them out for the general public.

• Introduces most words in the phonic family to which they belong, and gradually, introduces genuine, non-decodable sight words into the text without causing overload or throwing the child off course.

What is included?

• Each book is 12 - 16 pages long, with minimal colour pictures to make printing cheaper and to help tell the story when words are minimal

• Each book comes with a matching PowerPoint making it suitable for online teaching, for private tutors, parents, classroom assistants etc...

• Three packs: CK, OO and EE come with supporting activities and games - a total of 120 pages so far. I will be adding more worksheets in due course.

• Scope and Sequence included

I am writing one book a week, so this pack will quickly grow!