Phonics training for teachers

[mrz]

www.sounds-write.co.uk/docs/DfE%20Report%20on%20Sounds-Write%20Feb%202013.pdf

Mrz -
there are approx 175-180 ways to spell the 44ish sounds of spoken English.

This is something I've been meaning to clear up for ages - Do you limit this number of sound-letter correspondences to the 10,000 , 20,000 most common words or is this open-ended? If you include dialects, place names, christian and surnames, constantly expanding vocabulary, I would calculate that the number of ways to spell the 44ish sounds of English are way in excess of 170+

I should have said common ways to spell the sounds of spoken English.

The number of sounds also depend on accent and word origins etc of course.

Hi. I'm new to talk boards so please forgive lack of lingo, etiquette etc!

I'm looking for a synthetic/linguistic phonics tutor for my 9 year old son for some remedial reading/writing/spelling work. He is struggling at school and all the interventions in Action and Action+ have done little to help him catch up.

I've emailed, googled etc but can't find names of tutors that are trained in this way. I've read lots of research on dyslexics.org and RRF so I'm ready to give 'proper' phonics a go before we get pushed any further down the dyslexia/ADHD route by the school and various medical practitioners.

Can anyone help? We live in south London SW16 but can travel south and central London.

Thank you,
Desperate mum

I'm sorry, Londoncentric, I've only just seen your post. I'd strongly recommend the Bloomfield Centre, cited on Guy's Hospital. The teachers there are highly experienced and all use Sounds~Write.

We've just completed our second wave of Sounds-Write training based in our school and staff are really buzzing.
The data from my Y1 class is very promising with highest gain in reading age in a term and a half of 32 months and an average gain of 10 months across the class.

and they love phonicbooks

Just looking at the gains in reading comprehension age in the same period and they are equally impressive. So much for "phonics teaching" doesn't improve understanding

Sounds amazing, mrz - what are you using to test your Year 1s?

We are using the New Salford Sentence Reading Tests which give a RA and a Comprehension RA. Stupidly I've forgotten to bring home the handbook to look at standardised scores etc. Y1 & Y2 children were assessed at October half term and before we broke up for Easter.

I'm also going to assess all classes in the summer using Spelling Ages to plot progress from reception to Y6.

That looks very useful, may have to get that in.

I can see the manual, plus various other options like test cards, comprehension cards, specimen sheets, etc - I wish they would just tell you what you need and not price them up separately. Would I need all of it, mrz?

www.hoddereducation.co.uk/Title/9781444149456/New_Salford_Sentence_Reading_Test_Specimen_Set.htm contains the manual test cards and one recording sheet.

I think it's slightly cheaper on Amazon

There are 3 different tests so you could use a new one each term if you planned to use it to monitor progress.

Thanks, mrz, that's helpful.

Hope you have a lovely Easter x [busmile]

You too x [busmile]

Anyone still on this thread? I've been looking for a synthetic phonics tutor (pref Sounds Write-trained) for my 10 year old son in south London. He struggles still with reading and spelling but I'm having real difficulty finding a suitably trained tutor and not just a standard 11+ crammer.

Anyone know of one who works in London?

Anyone know of one who works in London?

I'll post a link to this thread on the RRF message board, there may be someone there who knows of a tutor in London.

Mrz

there are approx 175-180 ways to spell the 44ish sounds of spoken English.

Below u can see the 91 main English spelling patterns and their 114 variants. Several are used for more than one sound (e.g. ou in 'sound, soup - double') but they pose reading rather than spelling problems.

a: cat ? plait, meringue

a-e: plate ? wait, weight, straight, great, vein, reign, table, dahlia, champagne, fete

-ay: play ? they, weigh, ballet, cafe, matinee

air: air ? care, bear, aerial, their, there, questionnaire
ar: car ? are + (Southern Engl. bath)
au: sauce ? caught, bought, always, tall, crawl
-aw: saw ? (in UK with the same sound in: or, four, more)

b: bed

ca/o/u: cat, cot, cut ? character, kangaroo, queue
cr/cl: crab/ clot ? chrome, chlorine
-c: lilac ? stomach, anorak
-ck: neck ? cheque, rec
rocket - crocodile, soccer, occupy, liquor
kite/ kept - chemistry
seek - unique
risk - disc mosque

ch: chest ? cello
-tch: clutch ? much

d: dad ? blonde

e: end ? head, any, said, wednesday, friend, leisure, leopard, bury
ee: eel ? eat, even, ceiling, field, police, people, me, key, ski, debris, quay
--y: jolly ? trolley, movie, corgi
er: her ? turn, bird, learn, word, journey,

f: fish ? photo, stuff, rough
g: garden ? ghastly, guard
h: house ? who

i: ink ? mystery, pretty, sieve, women, busy, build
i-e: bite ? might, style, mild, kind, eider, height, climb, island indict sign
-y: my ? high, pie, rye, buy, i, eye

j: jug / jog
jelly, jig ? gentle, ginger;
-dg: fidget ? digit
gorge

k: see c: ...
l: lips ? llama
m: mum ? dumb, autumn
n: nose ? knot, gone, gnome, mnemonic
ng: ring

o: on ? cough, sausage;
want ? wont;
quarrel ? quod
o-e: mole ? bowl, roll, soul, boast, most, goes, mauve
old ? mould
-oe: toe ? go, dough, sew, cocoa, pharaoh, oh, depot
oi: oil ? oyster
-oy: toy ? buoy
oo: food ? rude, shrewd, move, group, fruit, truth, tomb,
blue, do, shoe, through, manoeuvre
good ? would, put, woman, courier
or: order ? board, court;
wart, quart ? worn, quorn
-ore: more ? soar, door, four, war, swore, abhor
ou: out ? town
-ow: now ? plough

p: pin

qu: quick ? acquire, choir
r: rug ? rhubarb, write

s: sun ? centre, scene
-ce: face - case
-cy: fancy - fantasy

sh: shop ? chute, sure, moustache, liquorice
-tion: ignition ? mission, pension, suspicion, fashion
-tious: ambitious ? delicious, luscious;
-cial: facial ? spatial

-cian: musician

t: tap, pet ? pterodactyl, two, debt
-te: delicate ? democrat

th: this thing

u: up ? front, some, couple, blood
u-e: cute ? you, newt, neutral, suit, beauty, tuesday, nuclear
-ue: cue ? few, view, menu

v-: van
-ve: have ? spiv
-v-: river ? chivvy

w: window ? which
x: fix ? accept, except, exhibit
y: yak ? use

z: zip ? xylophone
-se: rose ? froze

-si-: television
-su-: measure ? azure

Endings and prefixes:
-able: loveable ? credible
-al: vertical ? novel, anvil, petrol
-ary: ordinary ? machinery, inventory, century, carpentry
-en: fasten ? abandon, truncheon, orphan, goblin, certain
-ence: absence ? balance; absent ? pleasant
-er: father ? author, armour, nectar, centre, injure, quota
butcher ? picture

de-: decide ? divide
in-: indulge ? endure

Consonant doubling:
merry (regular) ? very(missing) ? serrated(surplus)

Masha Bell

Londoncentric,

You could try contacting these people: The Bloomfield Centre.

The link takes you to a course in SP for teachers, tutors & parents, but the centre may be able to suggest tutors to contact.

phonicbooks.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/syhtetic-phonics-courses-at-the-bloomfield-learning-centre-in-london-bridge/

Below u can see the 91 main English spelling patterns and their 114 variants. Several are used for more than one sound (e.g. ou in 'sound, soup - double') but they pose reading rather than spelling problems.

As an extremely experienced phonics teacher I'm sure that mrz will not find your list very helpful, masha