Phonics International

An additional 24 Alphabetic Code Frieze Posters have now been added to unit 7.

More to follow for units 8 to 12!

Just a quick note - Arun, our illustrator, has done a great job on the most recent batch of pictures and it won't be long before some great new strands appear in your Phonics International bank of resources! Not only that - we are re-designing the website and it is beginning to look really good (wel...

Hi Michelle, You might be pleased to know that resources are on their way for units 7 to 12 which include pictures! I hope your son will be newly encouraged and that you will be able to put them to good use. These are a continuation of the Alphabetic Code Frieze Poster series and the Colour-in Sound...

One more comment - I note that you have been using the I can read, write and draw texts but you don't mention using the I can read texts. If you have not already used the I can read texts, may I suggest that you now do what I describe as the ' layered ' approach. This means that you refer back to th...

Dear Michelle, Thank you so much for your unexpected message which has 'come out of the blue' for me! It is so hard to try to help people who prefer not to use the message forum and who don't relay back to me how they are doing with the Phonics International programme. I see that people are reading ...

ALPHABETIC CODE OVERVIEW CHARTS : I have now added two additional GIANT Alphabetic Code overview charts with phoneme pictures. These are currently located at the bottom of the unit 1 (module 1) list of resources. One of these is 'all white' so that teachers or learners can colour-in the grapheme bo...

THE ALPHABETIC CODE OVERVIEW CHART WITH PHONEME PICTURES: The blurb on the unit 1 (module 1) download page describes this new chart as: Just four sides of A4, this handy information chart would benefit school staff and parents. It includes the key phoneme pictures down the left hand column. A grey t...

Thank you for your very positive and interesting response! I must admit my heart was in my mouth wondering how my comments above would be received! I have looked at the links to the handwriting style and much of it is not unlike the joined handwriting that I promote myself in schools - although I am...

I thought I might describe the progress in the Reception class (four to five year olds - although the children are now all five) where I work one day a week in a 'job share' in a primary school. At this stage in the academic year, we have completed the introduction of letter/s-sound correspondences ...

Guidance in units 5 and 6 now uploaded. Unfortunately, the way that the website is constructed prevents us from adding new material in any other position than the 'bottom' of the resources list. This means that the Guidance for using the Picture Cards is not presented next to the actual Picture Card...

This is a really interesting issue and worthy of discussion! First of all, I can say that we have considered providing resources which people can 'change' if they would like to adapt them - obviously in the hope that people don't change them so much that the integrity of the resource is lost in the ...

Great to hear from you again, poppetsam - thank you for your positive comments. :lol: I am currently planning on making Alphabetic Code Frieze Posters for all the graphemes in my programme. This will include posters of multiple graphemes for a sound; for example: Consider the sound /ai/ - there is c...

Guidance uploaded in unit 4.

Guidance for using the Picture Cards in units 2 and 3 is now uploaded.

Look for these at the bottom of the list of resources on your unit 2 and unit 3 (modules) download pages.

Guidance for teachers for use of the Picture Cards in units 1 to 6: I felt that teachers and parents new to synthetic phonics teaching might welcome further guidance in how to segment (split up) spoken words. One consideration is that guidance may be needed for the segmenting of the spoken words in...