A friend of mine is currently doing an advanced training course on dialogue facilitation. She was telling me about her course and something she said resonated with me about the work we do in training teachers to deliver our phonics approach. The aim of the programme she is learning to facilitate is to explore cross-cultural… Continue reading Phonics and scripts

I’ve talked a lot on this blog about the skills, the knowledge, and conceptual understanding young children need to develop to mastery level. What I haven’t mentioned is the sort of really ‘super-charged, value-added component’ that should come with any high-quality phonics teaching. As always on this blog, I’ll talk about the detail of what… Continue reading Super-charged phonics