Getting Started
  • Welcome!
What reading and writing is about
  • What's this phonics course about?
  • Segmenting and blending
  • Modelling and practice
  • How do children learn best?
  • Why use phonics to teach young children to read and write?
  • What reading and writing is about
The Initial Code: Key concepts
  • Letters stand for sounds
  • Sounds can be spelled with more than one letter
  • One sound, different spellings; one spelling, different sounds
  • The Initial Code: Key concepts
Word building
  • Word building
  • Word building: error correction
  • Word building: more common errors
  • The ingredients of a good lesson: teaching the Initial Code - Units 1 to 6
Word reading
  • Word reading
  • Word reading: error correction
  • Word reading: more common errors
Unit 7
  • One letter, two sounds
  • Two letters, one sound
  • Unit 7
Bonus lectures: Sound-Swap
  • Sound Swap
  • Sounds Swap error correction