How to Sparkle at Phonics

Description

All the activities in How to Sparkle at Phonics are to do with learning sounds and using that knowledge to build words. It is widely recognised that onset and rime are very important skills for the early reader to acquire and this book focuses on beginning, medial and ending sounds, as well as on rhyme.

The book:

• develops knowledge of letter form and sound which will give the child a decoding strategy for unfamiliar words not apparent from context,
• develop an ability to blend sounds to form words,
• give the children insight into the nature of letters, how their sounds change in relation to other letters around them,
• gives lots of practice in listening and discriminating sounds,
• helps the children to recognise and identify familiar parts of new words
• demonstrates and teaches the inconsistencies of English spelling.