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Phonemes and syllables: How to teach a child to segment and blend words, when nothing seems to work.

Dr Marion Long

Published on: 15/03/2024

Phonemic awareness and the ‘alphabetic principle’ need to be explicitly taught until they become automatic. And yet, for some children this 'bottom up' approach does not support progress in early reading.

Phonemic Awareness

How rhythm defines

phonemic awareness

“It’s only an hour that they have with you over the time that you come in over the six weeks and for it to be able to make, for a lot of them, up to a year’s difference in their reading ability is quite amazing really.” Year 3 teacher

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