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Retired Teacher. Jolly Phonics Trainer. Educational Author: Scholastic, Jolly Learning, Can Do Cubes & TpT. Laurie Fyke

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b d p and q confusion https://t.co/kaNV0McZls

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Have You Ever “Lost a Pet?” https://t.co/lC3PNPjnK6

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Both a right and left-handed child should aim to hold the pencil with a three-finger tripod grip. Encourage a young child (aged 3-4) to hold the pencil between the index finger and thumb. #pencilgrip #kindergarten #primary #earlylearning https://t.co/0WJQt9gqkK

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Is My Child is Right or Left Handed? How do I determine hand dominance? Does the pencil grip matter? https://t.co/zBFSeI25bH

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24 Ways to Make Learning Sight Words https://t.co/fpvCXDTIDn

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What Are 6 Benefits of Retelling Nursery Rhymes? https://t.co/xp2LTwxxR9

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How are Phonological Awareness & Phonics Different? https://t.co/53wi1xeltt

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5 Quick Wins for Creative Phonics Teaching https://t.co/f5lu5b3nL5

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15 Helpful Activities for Counting Syllables https://t.co/9y4a3WLUqV

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Thank you, Debbie Hepplewhite!

[Debbie Hepplewhite MBE FRSA @debbiehepp]

It's not uncommon for people to refer to 'phonics' 'not suiting some children' which implies there really is 'something else' or 'some other method' to teach children. Like what? Learning thousands of words by global shape? No, provide better phonics content.

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Great news @RurbsOz !

[Rebecca Urban @RurbsOz]

BREAKING: The proportion of South Australian children able to demonstrate sound reading skills has increased dramatically since the state introduced system-wide phonics screening, with almost two-thirds of Year 1 students achieving at the expected level. Story soon @australian

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Check it out!

[Anne Glennie @anneglennie]

Well, what a way to start Monday... Blown away by this wonderful news. 🥲

[Anne Glennie @anneglennie]

Please read & share this thread of #dyslexia myths by @SusanGodsland for #DyslexiaAwarenessMonth Myth 1: those diagnosed with dyslexia have a fault in the brain which manifests itself as an inability to hear & manipulate sounds at the level of the phoneme...

[Dr Aisha Ahmad @ProfAishaAhmad]

Hello lovely people! A lot of folks reacted to my little thread about hitting a 6 month pandemic wall. Here's a short article I wrote about it. If my experience helps you, amen. If not, I'm still rooting for you. 🙏🏽❤️✊🏽

[The Reading League @reading_league]

"There's a winning formula for reading instruction! The Simple View of Reading: Decoding (Word Recognition) x Language Comprehension = Reading Comprehension

That is the #ScienceOfReading"

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Vocabulary: What Sound Does this Animal Make? https://t.co/T7zrN8qpVp

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COVID-19 and Kids – FREE Activities, Videos, Books and more! https://t.co/v6zG72eHmC

[Stephen Parker @ParkerPhonics]

Reading Teachers - Here's an excerpt from a book by @StanDehaene that I highly recommend:

[tcrw @suelloydtcrw]

More evidence that an early emphasis on decoding correlates with later comprehension - if you can't read it you can't understand it!

The importance of early phonics improvements for predicting later reading comprehension

https://t.co/ERvqvyBOdO