All Blog Posts Tagged 'phonics' (4)

I have been doing a lot of work on pronunciation with my trainee teachers. I wanted to create a nice display of words with the same sound. I started by collecting words on a sheet of A3 card eg a card with OI words and getting the students to add a new word when it came up eg bois. This is a good activity but the resulting posters are not very attractive. I found some lovely Word templates on SparkleBox in a folder called sb8… Continue

Here's my presentation from my Saturday session at the Primary Languages Show in Liverpool entitled You and Youtube. The i… Continue

I was very privileged to be invited to present this year at the Primary Languages Show in Liverpool, not once but twice! I… Continue

Inspired by ‘A New Literacy’ - CILT session lead by Kati Szeless & Joe Brown - I’ve been exploring the idea of incorporating techniques familiar to KS1 teachers into teaching French. I was lucky enough to have had the sounds or ‘phonemes’ taught explicitly when I learnt French in school, but many colleagues tell me that they were left pret

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