I teach in a primary school. We have some very needy children in Year 1 but have recently changed the way we teach phonics.
We just did the screening test with our class. We had 100% pass rate, even some with SEN who I think would've definitely failed, prior to our new phonics teaching regime.
We often teach non word reading as part of the daily phonics lesson, but have been doing extra non word reading this week, in preparation. This was because some of the children were tending to convert some non words in the closest real word that they know.
We wanted to really emphasise the point that you should read only the sounds that they you can see.
A colleague suggested that we had unfairly 'taught to the test'. What do you think?
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ThermalGirl · 20/06/2013 17:58
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