Guidance for using the Picture Cards units 1 to 6

[debbie]

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 into phonemes rather than into 'onset and rime' or consonant clusters or various other 'word chunks'.

Secondly, guidance would be helpful to gain familiarity with using the notation for how to express 'sounds' within slash marks (mainly at phoneme level with some exceptions such as /kw/, /ks/, /ngk/ and /yoo/ which are really two phonemes combined for practical reasons).

So, for example, the 'snake' picture is accompanied by both the spelling 'snake' and the phoneme split-up (segmenting) /s/ /n/ /ai/ /k/. A second word is provided for each picture in addition; so along with 'snake' there is also 'hiss' segmented into /h/ /i/ /s/. Remember that these is the ORAL SEGMENTING process. This is a sub-skill of learning to spell.

The teacher would not expect the learner to actually SPELL these words unless the graphemes (letters and letter groups) for these words had ALREADY been taught.

We have uploaded the Guidance for using the Picture Cards for the free unit 1 tonight and hope to follow this with uploading the Guidance for the Picture Cards in units 2 to 6 very shortly.

[debbie]

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.

[debbie]

Guidance uploaded in unit 4.

[debbie]

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 Cards resource. Sorry!