Yolanda Soryl phonics training
Some take outs from phonics training with Yolanda Soryl. This was an excellent course, packed with information and all you need to get started teaching a quality, effective phonics programme. -data showing students' accelerated development of phonemic awareness skills as a result of being taught phonics in first year of school - especially for boys, ELL students, Māori, Pasifika, students from lower socio economic backgrounds and people with learning and literacy difficulties. (p7 of manual). -students need an 'integrated literacy programme' that includes handwriting, spelling and oral language. And it is important hearing our students read aloud (including older students) -'teachers who taught sounding out and blending explicitly accelerated reading attainment' (p10). I noticed doing recent GKR phonemic awareness tests that none of the group of 5.6 y students I'm working with could tell me f-u-n was fun. They are not able to blend and this is a skill required ...