For any of you that have taught early phonics to young children, the question may well have come up – ‘Do you teach blending or segmenting first?’ This is a common question, but one there seems...
Category: Literacy
Before children learn to write words, they need to orally segment. Segmenting is simply the skill of separating words up into their component sounds. For example, ‘pig’ becomes ‘p-i-g’....
When I very first started teaching I had all sorts of problems with behavior! I remember the first lesson I ever took, and about half of the children lay down on the floor and refused to sit back up...
Many of us often find that we have lots of exciting strategies to teach other skills in phonics, but when it comes to teach tricky words it's just a case of getting out the flaschards again, and hope...
Struggling to find alliteration activities? You've come to right place; and can I just say that these games are spectacularly superb and seriously special! Alliteration is something that children can...
I have to say that if I could select just one resource to take from my classroom, it would undoubtedly be claves, or 'rhythm sticks' as we like to call them. Rhythm sticks are simply long pieces of...