After my last post, ‘How to teach spelling…’, let’s look at the detail of what students from Year 2  and above need to know in terms of phonic knowledge. We’re working with a large MAT introducing Sounds-Write in their secondary schools and so I’ve been looking in detail at some of the texts students will… Continue reading Reading… the tsunami

Well, how do you teach spelling? And, what do you do when the DfE gives you an apparently random list of statutory spellings for you to teach? Well, you teach them, I guess! What else are you supposed to do? But how exactly do you go about teaching your students to spell words like ‘height’,… Continue reading How to teach spelling… the story continues