Teaching Phonics and Early Reading

This 'Critical Focus' contains key extracts from Teaching Systematic Synthetic Phonics and Early English with a focus on phonics and early reading. It takes account of the new EYFS and the latest Teachers' Standards as well as the new national curriculum. Chapters cover SSP and how children learn to read, creative approaches for teaching phonics, and developing early reading.This concise ebook is an ideal resource for essays and assignments or as a taster of the main book from which it is derived.

About Critical Focus

Introduction

About the authors

1. Systematic Synthetic Phonics and how children learn to read
2. Creative approaches for teaching Systematic Synthetic Phonics
3. Early reading

Glossary

Index

Jonathan Glazzard teaches on the primary English modules and is currently responsible for leading the primary initial teacher education provision at the University of Huddersfield. He has been teaching since 1995 and has worked across early years, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. He is passionate about promoting creative approaches to teaching which inspire practitioners and children.

Jane Stokoe is a Deputy Headteacher in a Barnsley primary school. She is an experienced teacher and mentor of initial teacher training students and she contributes to the primary programmes at the University of Huddersfield. She has been teaching for 35 years.