Lessons in Teaching Phonics in Primary Schools

Phonics is embedded in the National Curriculum and is an important part of teaching children to read. Trainee and early career teachers need to understand what good phonics teaching looks like. This book provides exemplar lessons in phonics as a starting point to explore the theory behind them, what makes them good and how they can be adapted to suit different year groups and different schools. Supported with additional online material at www.sagepub.co.uk/lessonsinteaching this book: * offers support on how to teach tricky words, alternative spellings, pronunciation and address various phonics teaching challenges * explores the most popular phonics schemes and shows how good phonics teaching works across schemes * highlights how phonics teaching can be fun, offering ideas for teaching phonics outdoors, whole class phonics teaching and nonsense words