Making Sense of Reading: The New Phonics and Its Implications (Primary Professional Bookshelf S.)

by NicholasBielby (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $3.15

  This is one of the launch titles for a new series designed to address topical issues and present up-to-date theory in primary teaching. The book presents the theory underpinning the new phonics and its recognized place in the English curriculum. It provides a model for what children do when they are learning to decode print - and shows how phonics can be used as a tool, among others, to aid the process. It places phonics within the broader context of learning to mad, explains the current jargon (such as onset and rime ) in an easily assimilable way and demonstrates strategies for developing phonological awareness befom learning to read and phonics teaching at the early stages of learning to read.