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- Foundation Lesson for Reading and Spelling.
- The Empress Has No Clothes.
- Ginn Phonics Bank Alphabet Song
- When a child can’t remember links between sounds and letters, and so can’t blend. From Portsmouth Down Syndrome Project, Professor Sue Buckley, adapted for children with severe reading problems.
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Category: Teaching Techniques, Literacy
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The foundation lesson aims to give the learner a clear idea of how the alphabet operates in English, and to begin to use it. It uses clear and understandable language, and explains variations or difficulties as they arise, so that each element is fully understood from the outset. This ensures that everything we say builds,…
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This introduction to the alphabet was composed by Maureen Hartley and included in the Award-winning Ginn Phonics bank in the early 90s. It can be supported by illustrations. Alphabet song apple a, apple a, hanging on the tree bat b, bat b, see it hit the ball cat c, cat c, sitting on my lap…
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The Portsmouth Down’s Syndrome Project’s materials are reviewed in Chapter 14, but the approach may be summarised as follows: This phase of matching, selecting and naming pictures is designed to build up vocabulary at the same time as the association of a word with a given picture. It has been successful in many cases in…
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Part 1, Grammar. “What can be said at all, can be said simply.” Wittgenstein. “‘Tis the gift to be simple.” Simple Gifts, Joseph Brackett. This approach, based on work with a parent of children in UK years 4 to 6, builds on what children already know, and uses a minimum of terminology. It is designed…