Guidance for Phonics Routines

Marking: Engage children with a sense of their own learning. Do they know it? They tick in pencil. Don’t they know it? Circle – understanding that it’s OK not to know something. The teacher will teach you (or teach you again), and you may need more...

Simple View of Reading

(1/5) Skilled reading is the product of decoding AND language comprehension. If kids can’t decode, their comprehension is moot, because they don’t know what the words are. If kids don’t have strong background knowledge/vocab, they won’t understand most of what they...