Recommended reading for parents/carers:
– Growing a reader from birth: Your child’s path from language to literacy.
Prof Diane McGuinness. Pub. Norton. 2004.
Understanding a child’s emerging language from first babblings to a five-year-old’s mastery of reading – and a useful layperson’s guide to speech development.
– A Parent’s Guide to Phonics: Understanding How to Help your Child with Reading and Spelling.
Ann Sullivan. Pub. DK. 2024.
https://www.dk.com/uk/book/9780241712634-dk-super-phonics-a-parents-guide-to-phonics/
”The book is written using accessible, jargon-free language that is easy to follow and understand.”
It explains how reading and spelling are taught using a high-quality phonics programme.
There is a section on teaching phonics to pupils with special educational needs.
One-page outline of research-based ‘Principles that Teachers Need to Follow’, including
the three activities that teachers and home-educating parents should avoid.
Principles derived from McGuinness’s Prototype for Teaching the English Alphabet Code
(McGuinness 2004 ERI. p323)
https://soundreadingsystem.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/The-Principles-that-Teachers-Need-to-Follow-1.pdf
Fiona Nevola. Sound Reading System Teachers’ Handbook. 2013 edition. N.B. read only.
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Primarily aimed at parents and carers, this is a collection of high-quality phonics resources suitable for teaching reading and spelling to pre-schoolers -> 6yrs old:
Sounds-Write’s FREE, online phonics Part 1 (Initial Code Units 1-7) course for parents/carers/homeschoolers: teach your rising 4-6 yr old child how to read and spell. Both parts are compatible with the DfE-validated phonics programmes taught in England’s primary schools.
https://www.udemy.com/help-your-child-to-read-and-write/
Help your child to read and write Part 2 (Initial Code Units 8-11)
https://www.udemy.com/help-your-child-to-read-and-write-part-2/
£. Sounds-Write Activity Book for Part 1 (Initial Code Units 1-7)
To use alongside Sounds-Write’s Udemy course part 1.
£ Sounds-Write Activity Book for Part 2 (Initial Code Units 8-11)
To use alongside Sounds-Write’s Udemy course part 2.
Both books are available from Amazon.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/id769196201?mt=8&affId=1736887
£. App for iPad only. Sounds-Write’s Linguistic Phonics Initial/Basic Code app. 1st three units are free. This app offers a variety of activities to develop the skills of blending and segmenting sound-spelling correspondences, with words and sentences for reading and writing.
N.B. Parental/carer supervision is needed when using the app.
Free to download and print: First Phonics Picture Book for pre-schoolers -all 44 sounds covered.
http://www.spelfabet.com.au/materials/first-phonics-picture-book-4/
FREE Phonics decodable books:
First Steps. 12 initial code stories (units 4->) Free pdf e-book versions
https://sounds-write.co.uk/free-resources/
Suitable to use alongside the Sounds-Write online Udemy course for parents – see above.
For initial code stories (units 1-3) see http://www.phonicbooks.co.uk/ ‘Launchers’ series.
For more decodable books (£) to use with the Sounds-Write programme:
https://www.dyslexics.org.uk/resources-and-further-reading-phonics-evidence-phonics-resources-and-programmes/