Phonics on the cheap!
Alix Tregenza ()
Biography
Alix Tregenza is a qualified as a primary school teacher specializing in history and geography at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. After ten years teaching in the north-west of England and taking additional qualifications in special-needs teaching, she moved to Spain.
At present, Alix works at the British Council Bilbao and in local schools, teaching a range of ages and abilities but focusing on the very young learners. In addition to her teaching roles, she is actively involved in teacher training, particularly the use of phonics.
Abstract
Phonics on the cheap is for teachers who want to start using synthetic phonics in the classroom but don´t have the resources. This talk will give the teachers some ideas of web sites and resources that they can use to introduce synthetic phonics in the classroom. It may also be of interest to teachers who are already teaching phonics but are looking for web resources to supplement the material they already have.
Further Information
The 44 sounds
These sounds need to be taught quickly and comprehensively
s a t i p n c/k e h r m d
g o u l f b ai j oa ie ee or
z w ng v oo oo y x ch sh th
th quo u oi ue er ar
Blending
· Blending is the ability to smoothly and fluidly combine individual sound together into words.
· For example, smooth blending is sounding out the word ‘mast’ as /mmaasst/ instead of a choppy or segmented /m/…./a/…./s/…./t/.
· In simple terms, blending is smoothly ‘hooking the sounds together’ when sounding out words.
Segmenting
· The “opposite” of blending
· Breaking down a spoken word into sounds (phonemes)in order that they can be written
Useful websites
www.internationalphonics.com - Debbie Hepplewhite´s site, she is a UK Government advisor and she also has lots of free resources
www.coralgeorge.com - Coral has pioneered the teaching of phonics in Spain
www.onestopenglish.com - Free phonics resources from Macmillan
www.starfall.com -A useful site for phonics games and easy readers, but it is American so some spellings are different.
www.bbc.co.uk/phonics - Good phonics games and information
www.adrianbruce.com - Lots of free downloadable games
www.youtube.com - Watch “Mr Thorne”, he has short videos on how to pronounce each sound.
www.decodables.com - Sells decodable readers and other phonic related material. Based in Spain.
www.onestopenglish.com
www.rightrackreading.com - This sight explains the terminology e.g. sight word, decodable reader
www.sparklebox.co.uk - A very useful site for phonics worksheets. Be careful to look up co.uk and not .com, as one is British and the other one is American and doesn´t have a lot of phonics materials. The site has lots of useful materials also for storytelling and lots of poems and rhymes, ready to print out.
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