New: Series of 8 eBooks - suitable for whom?
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 11:02 am
Hi,
We've just informed people about our new series of 8 eBooks compiled from some existing resources in the Phonics International and Early Years Starter Package plus some new resources.
The books introduce systematically 115 letter/s-sound correspondences (some other correspondences are introduced incidentally in the short texts) and their advantage for busy parents, tutors, teaching assistants, special needs teachers is their 'pick up and go' readiness.
We provide them along with three bonuses:
1) A set of printable Grapheme Tiles and their key pictures for all the graphemes introduced systematically in the eBooks
2) An 80 page eBook of all the 'My words - word lists' from the Phonics International programme units 1 to 6
3) A series of emails from me to point people in the right direction of teaching and learning - getting the best out of the eBooks.
Following the launch, a number of people contacted us asking whether the eBooks were suitable in their circumstances. Sometimes the answer is that the full online Phonics International programme is more suitable.
For example, a mother wrote and asked what woud be best for her 12 year old daughter with a spelling age of around 10 - and would the books help her with spelling.
For a very serious and sustained spelling programme for a learner in this scenario, I would suggest that the Phonics International full programme would be more fit-for-purpose - that is, use the core Sounds Book Activity Sheets alternating with the 'I can read' texts and further associated resources to focus on which words are spelt which way - and that is 'spelling word bank' knowledge.
See my specific answer in the posting below:
Also, I have been asked if the eBooks would be suitable for adult learners. Well - this is an interesting question. It could well be just what is needed for adults who literally know no spoken English and are starting from the beginning. It gives the 'tutor' or 'educator' a pick-up-and-go body of material which will launch reading, writing and spelling.
However, for a deep, extremely comprehensive and sustained and flexible body of work, I would suggest the full Phonics International programme - 'flexible' being the key word. Phonics International has been designed to enable the 'tutor' or 'teacher' to be able to focus on the level of alphabetic code knowledge required and plan the programme of work according to the different levels of vocabulary and cumulative sentences and texts - taking into consideration the learner's needs and stage of learning - and level of alphabetic code knowledge and phonics skills.
Ultimately, people need to read the accompanying description of the series of 8 eBooks for themselves to make a decision. Using the eBooks to start off with does not preclude going on to the later units of Phonics International after that - by which time both the supporting adult and the learner has had an excellent straightforward start with the ready-compiled eBooks.
The books focus on the letter/s-sound correspondences of Units 1 to 6 of Phonics International with a few additional letter/s-sound correspondences to ensure full coverage for the English Year One phonics screening check - totalling around 115 systematically introduced letter/s-sound correspondences of the alphabetic code.
See the notes accompanying the series:
http://www.teachyourchildtoread.co.uk/e ... erview.pdf
See the website for the eBooks:
http://www.teachyourchildtoread.co.uk/
We've just informed people about our new series of 8 eBooks compiled from some existing resources in the Phonics International and Early Years Starter Package plus some new resources.
The books introduce systematically 115 letter/s-sound correspondences (some other correspondences are introduced incidentally in the short texts) and their advantage for busy parents, tutors, teaching assistants, special needs teachers is their 'pick up and go' readiness.
We provide them along with three bonuses:
1) A set of printable Grapheme Tiles and their key pictures for all the graphemes introduced systematically in the eBooks
2) An 80 page eBook of all the 'My words - word lists' from the Phonics International programme units 1 to 6
3) A series of emails from me to point people in the right direction of teaching and learning - getting the best out of the eBooks.
Following the launch, a number of people contacted us asking whether the eBooks were suitable in their circumstances. Sometimes the answer is that the full online Phonics International programme is more suitable.
For example, a mother wrote and asked what woud be best for her 12 year old daughter with a spelling age of around 10 - and would the books help her with spelling.
For a very serious and sustained spelling programme for a learner in this scenario, I would suggest that the Phonics International full programme would be more fit-for-purpose - that is, use the core Sounds Book Activity Sheets alternating with the 'I can read' texts and further associated resources to focus on which words are spelt which way - and that is 'spelling word bank' knowledge.
See my specific answer in the posting below:
Also, I have been asked if the eBooks would be suitable for adult learners. Well - this is an interesting question. It could well be just what is needed for adults who literally know no spoken English and are starting from the beginning. It gives the 'tutor' or 'educator' a pick-up-and-go body of material which will launch reading, writing and spelling.
However, for a deep, extremely comprehensive and sustained and flexible body of work, I would suggest the full Phonics International programme - 'flexible' being the key word. Phonics International has been designed to enable the 'tutor' or 'teacher' to be able to focus on the level of alphabetic code knowledge required and plan the programme of work according to the different levels of vocabulary and cumulative sentences and texts - taking into consideration the learner's needs and stage of learning - and level of alphabetic code knowledge and phonics skills.
Ultimately, people need to read the accompanying description of the series of 8 eBooks for themselves to make a decision. Using the eBooks to start off with does not preclude going on to the later units of Phonics International after that - by which time both the supporting adult and the learner has had an excellent straightforward start with the ready-compiled eBooks.
The books focus on the letter/s-sound correspondences of Units 1 to 6 of Phonics International with a few additional letter/s-sound correspondences to ensure full coverage for the English Year One phonics screening check - totalling around 115 systematically introduced letter/s-sound correspondences of the alphabetic code.
See the notes accompanying the series:
http://www.teachyourchildtoread.co.uk/e ... erview.pdf
See the website for the eBooks:
http://www.teachyourchildtoread.co.uk/