Phonics Teacher Guide, Year 1

Phonics Teacher Guide Year 1 is an essential resource for using the Phonic Books Dandelion range in a Reception/Early Years setting or for intervention sessions. Empower early literacy 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 Dandelion range but can be used to support teaching of any phonics programme.

The Year 1 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 and continuous 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:

• Dandelion Launchers Units 1–3 and 4–7: Sounds of the alphabet
• Dandelion Launchers Units 8–10 and 11–15: Adjacent consonants and digraphs
• Dandelion Launchers Units 16-20: Simple two-syllable words and suffixes
• Dandelion Readers Level 1: One spelling for each vowel sound
• Dandelion Readers Split Vowel Spellings

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