By Philomena Ott

Readers will locate this functional and finished consultant to spelling worthwhile. daily recommendation on find out how to aid people with problems is underpinned by way of details at the improvement of the English language and its spelling ideas with causes of universal language difficulties. Chapters cover:

  • spelling processes
  • teaching and studying phonics
  • individual cognitive and studying styles
  • assessing and tracking spelling progress
  • teaching suggestions and techniques.

This is a vital significant other for academics, SENCos, and dyslexia experts alike, in addition asВ anyone drawn to spelling and language difficulties.

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Com) has the alphabet on every page, gives the plural of nouns and the different forms of verbs, a guide to pronunciation and an example sentence using enlarged text which is also approved by the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB). Younger pupils find dictionaries with colour and illustrations attractive and easier to use. Pictorial cues also help to speed up the process. ALPHABETIC KNOWLEDGE : THE KEYSTONE OF LANGUAGE 29 Clear definitions are important and should be followed with an example of usage.

He and his medical team carried out autopsies on individuals who had had dyslexia (Rosen et al. 1993). They found as a result of eight autopsies on six male and two female dyslexic individuals that there were structural differences in their brains and that their brain function was different. They had ectopias (brain warts) and dysplasias (scars) on the planum temporale, which is the language area of the left hemisphere of their brain, but no brain damage. The two halves of their brains were symmetrical whereas in ‘the control brains [normal readers] 85 per cent show asymmetry, the larger side usually being the left’.

35 4 Phonics: Resolving the Big Issues • • • • • • • • • • • • Phonics’ historic centre-stage role in the acquisition of literacy Transatlantic concerns about declining reading standards raised by whistleblowers, resulting in the outbreak of a ‘phonics war’ Responses to concerns about declining reading standards in US and UK schools The way forward – A National Literacy Strategy including phonics Training standards for those charged with delivering literacy skills The NLS objectives for teaching phonics The whys and wherefores of the ‘long tail of underachievement’ in reaching expected standards in National Curriculum tests Plugging the gaps in basic skills with the NLS’s Additional Literacy Support Specific difficulties associated with delivering Additional Literacy Support for those with dyslexia Practical suggestions for teaching and learning the bare essentials of phonics Checklist for phonics Summary and conclusions Keywords Analytic phonics ‘Code emphasis’ reading method Grapheme Keywords ‘Meaning emphasis’ reading method Multi-sensory learning NLS Additional Literacy Support (ALS) Phoneme Phonics Phonological awareness Phonology ‘Progressive education’ movement Segmentation skills Synthetic phonics Systematic phonics ‘Whole language’ movement ‘Whole word’ reading method PHONICS : RESOLVING THE BIG ISSUES 37 Phonics’ historic centre stage role in the acquisition of literacy The Phoenicians devised a system of mapping the sounds of speech to symbols which were called letters.

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