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**NEW Product**

Debbie's

Early Years
Starter Package
Click HERE to see
video explaining how
the EYSP works!

For schools and parents
(£33 for parents - £66 for schools or FREE when full
Phonics International
programme purchased)

Click HERE


Package Includes:

(all downloadable PDFs)
Information Booklet
* Code Charts
* Frieze Posters
* Flash Cards
* Grapheme Tiles
* Activity Sheets (92)
* Word Bank
* Blend Cards (93)
* Alphabet Posters
* Sounds/Letters Posters
* Matching Games
* Simple Sentences
* Booklets (102 instructional texts)


Some examples from
the Starter Pack:

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Hear the Sounds
 

Say the sounds...
and see the spelling alternatives
(Part 1)


The 2 x links below will take you to further YouTube videos
in which Debbie is interviewed by Francis Morgan

Part 1 - Part 2

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new

'Debbie's Scroll'
The simple to complex Alphabetic Code Overview Chart.
Forming part of Debbie's Phonics International programme, the scroll has been revised and can be downloaded for FREE from Unit 1 of the PhonicsInternational website. Numerous versions
are available (from 'Mini' to 'Giant' posters)
to suit preferences.

Click HERE to access the scroll (s) - plus lots
more free material from Unit 1 of Debbie's
Phonics International site.


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Synthetic Phonics Wins the Day!!!
Rose final report published Monday 20th March 2006
Click HERE to download in .pdf format

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.......and the response from the Reading Reform Foundation.....
Click HERE to download in .pdf format

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Synthetic Phonics de-mystified!

Any questions at all regarding synthetic phonics,
please visit our messageboard (click HERE)
where Debbie will personally address
any concerns you may have.

PLUS........

check out the links below for some absolutely invaluable FREE downloads

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What is ‘synthetic phonics’ and ‘analytic phonics’ teaching?
Click HERE to view/download

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An 'all-through-the-word' phonics teaching
approach for reading and spelling
(Click HERE for model)

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Criteria for evaluating a phonics programme.
Click HERE to view/download


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Synthetic Phonics - the politics and the
teaching principles
(pdf format)
Click HERE to view/download

Some key extracts selected from the Final Rose Report, March 2006, by Debbie Hepplewhite
(2 sides of A4 - ideal for staff meetings and training purposes)

A simple 'parents' guidance'
to support early reading
(1 side of A4 - fold to make A5 pamphlet or stick into home/school reading record book)
(pdf format - Click HERE to view/download)


 

Quite simply, synthetic phonics is the most effective evidence-based method to teach reading and spelling! Programmes based on phonics research may vary slightly but they have fundamentally important features in common.

Why have leading journalists recently been writing about 'Synthetic Phonics' and Clackmannanshire? Synthetic Phonics is not new that is for sure. But what is new, and what makes it 'hot' news, is the fact that very few schools teach reading and spelling as per the research - even when the headteacher and staff might think they do so!

Why is this the case?

The reason for this is because teachers have been mistrained with a diplomatic mixture of reading instruction methods promoted through the government's National Literacy Strategy training and untested programmes. These have been criticised heavily by various parties, including Ofsted, since the outset of the National Literacy Strategy in England in 1998. (See the Reading Reform Foundation downloadable newsletters from no. 45 onwards.) Many headteachers, teachers and advisers do not know what is possible through evidence-based Synthetic Phonics teaching.

Intrigued?

Learn about the historic and current reading debate throughout the English-speaking world and take part in that debate via the Reading Reform Foundation website.

Why SyntheticPhonics.com?

SyntheticPhonics.com is designed to provide teaching materials, resources and synthetic phonics training information (on this site and via links) and for sharing ideas, good practice and advice through the message board forum - based on the teaching principles of Synthetic Phonics and Linguistic Phonics.

Who is this site for?

Everyone! Every teacher and every family should know how best to teach the basic skills of reading and spelling.

Debbie Hepplewhite

 

 

 

Debbie's new International Online Synthetic Phonics Programme is NOW LAUNCHED!!! Click HERE to go to the website. The whole of Unit 1 of the programme is completely FREE to download!!
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About Debbie
 

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Debbie has campaigned extensively over many years to achieve national evidence-based synthetic phonics teaching for beginner readers and others requiring intervention. She has advised the British government throughout its recent parliamentary inquiry and national review of how to teach reading.

With her broad teaching and headteaching experience in primary education and her knowledge about the reading debate, Debbie is able to offer detailed practical advice to parents, school staff, local education authority advisers, publishers and politicians in the synthetic phonics teaching principles. She has written numerous articles for newsletters and educational magazines on reading and related subjects.

Debbie provides a synthetic phonics consultancy, training and advisory service. Debbie takes with her on training days an impressive range of synthetic phonics decodable books and other resources to enable attendees to consider how to address their individual and whole school needs.

Debbie offers free advice via email and also through online message forums including this website, the Reading Reform Foundation website and the Times Educational Supplement (TES) early years staffroom forum.

Debbie is the author of www.PhonicsInternational.com, a unique international online synthetic phonics programme for parents, schools, and student teachers. For further information, please visit the website or contact Debbie via our web enquiry form.

 

 
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