Teaching phonics to all!
Bridging the gap: adapting phonics teaching for all learners
28 November 2024: 9 am – 12 noon
This session will help you bridge the gap between traditional phonics teaching and the unique needs of learners with more complex or neurodiverse learning needs.
Understanding phonics is crucial for developing early reading skills, and learners with complex or neurodiverse needs require more tailored approaches to access and engage in a phonics curriculum.
This session clarifies phonics terminology and offers practical strategies, resources, and activities to ensure that you can adapt phonics teaching to meet the needs of all learners, from pre-formal to more formal reading stages.
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 £112.50 plus VAT.
You can pay by credit card for this booking or request an invoice on the booking form.
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.
