MORE ON SSP Systematic synthetic phonics
High Quality Phonics Teaching Interactive Engages all pupils Relevant to the pupils’ phonic stage Fast paced All use correct phoneme pronunciation Application of phoneme – grapheme correspondences in every lesson Each lesson allows pupils to practise blending for reading and segmenting for spelling Anything else?
Possible structure of a phonics lesson Review / revisitTeachPractiseApply
Progression for pupils within the lesson Hear the phoneme Say the phoneme Read the grapheme Write the grapheme
What next? Be able to decode a word containing the grapheme Use the grapheme in a word (write) Use the words in sentences