Phonics Hero Blog
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The Phonics Hero blog covers everything phonics: a great phonics lesson explained, how to use decodable books, how to teach vowel teams, and more! Since the beginning, we've made over 850 systematic synthetic phonics games, launched our no-prep Phonics Lessons, and taught tens of thousands of children to read and spell across the globe.
Phonics Hero Blog
3w ago
Whether you are a seasoned teacher or a newbie, you should always be on alert for any bad habits creeping into your phonics teaching. Lesley Clarke lists her top 10 “don’ts” of phonics lesson planning and teaching – and how to fix them ..read more
Phonics Hero Blog
1M ago
Whether you’ve just started implementing phonics in your class or are well underway, you’ve probably identified the “Do’s” for successful programme implementation, but what about the equally impactful “Don’ts” of lesson planning? As phonics veterans among us will know, when implementing a new phonics programme even teachers experienced in phonics instruction will have to navigate ..read more
Phonics Hero Blog
5M ago
It’s a hop, skip and a jump away from 2024, when many Australian schools will be adopting systematic and explicit phonics. Teacher and literacy consultant Lesley Clarke shares her top five tips from 14 years of supporting English schools who have made the leap to synthetic phonics. A must-read for leadership teams ..read more
Phonics Hero Blog
9M ago
Tick-tock, tick-tock…the clock is ticking and there’s geography, life skills, maths and phonics to get through today! Shirley Houston explores how much of the school-day you should ring-fence for teaching phonics ..read more
Phonics Hero Blog
1y ago
With over 160 dialects spoken worldwide, English is a wonderfully diverse language. But what’s a teacher to do when one child says “to-may-to” and another “to-mar-to”? Shirley Houston explores key differences between accents in English and offers advice on respectfully navigating these differences when teaching reading and spelling ..read more
Phonics Hero Blog
1y ago
We’ve listed the 13 definitions your teachers need to know and included a fun phonics quiz along with printable handouts for your next professional development session ..read more
Phonics Hero Blog
1y ago
The English-speaking world is FINALLY coming to a consensus that systematic, synthetic phonics is crucial to learning to read and spell, but when should you stop teaching phonics? When do you move children on from ‘learning to read’ to ‘reading to learn’? Teacher Shirley Houston discusses ..read more
Phonics Hero Blog
1y ago
The NSW Department of Education has put out its third (and hopefully last) suggested sequence of phonemes and graphemes for K-2. We are adding it to Phonics Hero for 2023; here’s what we’ve tweaked to get it classroom-ready ..read more
Phonics Hero Blog
1y ago
As the school year progresses, students start to fly through the basic phonics code – until they come up against the alternative spellings and it hurts even your head! How do you teach and embed the alternative spellings so that students’ spelling becomes more accurate? Teacher Shirley Houston explains ..read more
Phonics Hero Blog
1y ago
We’ve listed the 13 definitions your teachers need to know and included a fun phonics quiz along with printable handouts for your next professional development session ..read more