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Early reading

The following resources are to support the learning and teaching of Literacy

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Application of phonics skills and knowledge in shared and guided sessions

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Discrete teaching Phase 1: example of planning and resourcing - developing speaking, listening and phonological awareness

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Discrete teaching Phase 2: introducing grapheme-phoneme correspondence

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Discrete teaching Phase 3: blending and segmenting CVC words

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Discrete teaching Phase 4: reading and spelling words containing adjacent consonants

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Discrete teaching Phase 5: recognising and using alternative ways of pronouncing and spelling graphemes

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Discrete teaching Phase 6: developing skills and automaticity in reading and spelling

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Paper on searchlights model

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Phonics and early reading

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Phonic progress tracking sheet

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Guidance for practitioners and teachers on progression and pace in the teaching of phonics

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