Teaching phonics to all!
How to develop confidence in phonics terminology and teaching of a phonics curriculum
9 November 2023: 9 am – 12 noon
This session will focus on developing literacy skills as an entitlement of all learners, including those defined as having PMLD and the most complex needs.
We focus on what we mean by phonics, the role of letter-sound correspondence within reading for typically-developing learners and how this will look for our learners with more complex needs.
The aim is to develop confidence in phonics terminology, teach a phonics curriculum and develop prerequisite skills. We discuss how important an inclusive reading curriculum is to develop early reading skills within the best practice. We will explore a teaching sequence for phonics and progression linked to letter and sound phases.
We provide practical games/activities/links to IT and resources for each stage of the continuum, from those accessing a pre-formal curriculum to semi-formal and a more formal conventional reading curriculum.
NB: Updated to reflect the outcomes and implementation of the Reading Framework published in July 2021.
9 am Admissions and virtual tea/coffee to start the session
9.10 am Welcome & introduction to agenda
9.15 am Warm-up activity: chat task
9.20 am Session 1: What do we mean by phonics?
What is a phoneme – terminology and word recognition. How do we learn to read? Where does phonics fit within an inclusive reading curriculum? What may learners struggle with and why? How will this impact teaching?
10 am Breakout Room Chat Task
10.15 am Session 2 – The Importance of sound discrimination as the building blocks of phonics.
Where to begin with our learners, how to assess and where to start. Moving learners on, how do we do this? How do we engage, motivate, and support our learners’ spikey phonics learning profiles?
10.45 am COFFEE BREAK and mini online learning course
11.05 am Discussion of key points from online learning course
11.10 am Session 3: Session 3 – Planning for progression – how do we do this?
What will our reading curriculum look like, and how will this enable phonics to be learnt by all? Ten top tips to ensure our phonics teaching is inclusive, including example scheme of work and lesson structure.
11.45 am Questions and Answers
12 pm Thank you and goodbyes!
This course will be appropriate for classroom practitioners from special schools and colleges, mainstream settings with specialist SEN provision and early years settings, and working with pupils with severe/complex learning needs and autism, or both.
Dr Sarah Moseley has over 25 years of experience working in special and mainstream education, from teaching assistant to Headteacher. In addition, she has a solid research background, including a master’s degree and PhD in Special Education, focusing on teaching reading for pupils with SEND and inclusion. Sarah has presented nationally and internationally at conferences and is a published author.
Sarah’s PhD centred on teaching reading to pupils with SLD and the impact on their feelings as learners. Her research focused on six special schools across the UK with pupils aged 11-14 years and found positive results from including all pupils in a reading curriculum.
All the resources from this event will be in your account at online.hirstwood.com. You will access these using the email address on the booking form and your password (instructions in the joining information for creating your password.)
Here you will find:
a digital recording of the event
resources shared or signposted during the session
a transcript of the Zoom chat
your certificate of attendance
These will be available for 10 days after the event.
Each place costs £85 plus VAT.
You can pay by credit card for this booking or request an invoice on the booking form.
This live & online event now has a certificate of attendance to download!
This live & online event now has a dedicated Chat Room! Open the day before the event, chat with fellow delegates or tutors or ask questions. Open for ten days after the event.
The course was very interesting. I appreciated all the ideas shared. It has made me feel slightly more comfortable in the subject of Phonics.
I look forward to researching the links shared in promoting Phonics and then to approach implementing these ideas, structures, and schemes within the school to give more consistency and sequence of learning Phonics for our students.
Lots of useful info and resources for me to research.
The most beneficial aspect was the video and the words of advice surrounding non-verbal children.
It has opened up a discussion within our setting.
It was the best training, thank you so much.
