Phonics Teacher Guide, Catch-up

Phonics Teacher Guide Catch-up is an essential resource using the Phonic Books catch-up range for intervention sessions with older readers. Motivate the most reluctant readers with accessible expert guidance on applying phonics to reading and writing.

The Teacher Guide provides expert support for both experienced educators and those new to phonics teaching. This guide contains examples from the Phonic Books Catch-up range but can be used to support teaching of any phonics programme.

The Catch-up Teacher Guide contains:

• an introduction on how to use the guide
• explanations of the foundations of phonics, including key phonic concepts, terms and methodologies
• the role and impact of decodable books in learning to read
• an overview of the Phonic Books programme
• diagnostic assessments
• guidance for pronunciation and teaching of high-frequency words
• ready-made, time-saving structured lesson plans for varying amounts of time

The lesson plans are full of engaging and effective activities which are easy to implement. Each lesson is divided into five main sections: Revision, Preparation, Application, Consolidation and Tracking Progress. This enables each lesson to meet the phonics requirements, as well as more general literacy requirements, and ensure pupils are concurrently learning how to read for meaning from the start.

Phonics coverage:

• Moon Dogs Set 1: Sounds of the alphabet
• Moon Dogs Split Vowel Spellings
• Moon Dogs Vowel Spellings
• That Dog!: Adjacent consonants and consonant digraphs, suffixes -ed and -ing
• Island Adventure: Alternative vowel spellings