Phonics Blog: How children are short-changed by watered-down phonics
Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 2:30 pm
Mike Lloyd-Jones has written a new blog post. It's horribly accurate in its description of what passes for phonics teaching in the majority of schools in England today.
Phonics and the Art of Bonsai: How children are short-changed by watered-down phonics
http://www.phonicsblog.co.uk/#/blog/456 ... ai/9791994
Phonics and the Art of Bonsai: How children are short-changed by watered-down phonics
http://www.phonicsblog.co.uk/#/blog/456 ... ai/9791994
In too many primary schools – perhaps it is the majority of those schools – the phonics teaching provided is a cut-down version of what children should be entitled to. The children are short-changed by a version of phonics which is fragmentary, partial and disjointed– and for so many the inevitable price of this cut-down teaching is stunted reading development.