Course curriculum

  • 1

    What comes before Phonics and why

  • 2

    Opening up their eyes, switching on their brains!

    • Why visual discrimination and visual memory are so important

    • Practical activities to develop visual discrimination

    • Practical activities to develop visual memory

    • Reflecting and developing practice
  • 3

    Tuning in their ears

    • Why auditory discrimination is so important

    • How auditory discrimination can support vocabulary development

    • The importance of auditory memory

    • Practical activities to develop auditory discrimination, auditory memory and vocabulary

    • Pass the Noisy Box Game

    • Noisy Eggs Game

    • Noisy Dice Game

    • Noisy Shopping

    • What is hiding in the box? Game

    • Traffic lights musical game

    • Super sound sequences

    • Reflecting and developing practice
  • 4

    Warming up their voices

    • Why a workout for the mouth is so important

    • Practical activities to develop speech sounds

    • Reflecting and developing practice
  • 5

    Super Syllables

    • Why hearing the beats in words really matters

    • Practical activities to develop rhythm

    • Which animal is hiding ? Game

    • The traffic jam game

    • The tambourine game

    • Feel the beat song

    • Reflecting and developing practice
  • 6

    Really Rhyming

    • Listening out for the similarities and differences in words

    • Helping children with rhyming

    • Top tips for teaching rhyming

    • Practical activities for developing rhyming

    • Rhyming missing objects game

    • Catch that fly rhyming game

    • Bags of rhyming game

    • Rhyming odd one out game

    • Rhyming dice game

    • Reflecting and developing practice
  • 7

    Easy Peasy Alliteration

    • Listening for similarities and differences at the beginning of words

    • Alliteration tongue twisters

    • Helping children with alliteration

    • Practical activities to develop an awareness of alliteration

    • Alliteration magic game

    • Supermarket sorting game

    • Alliteration dice game

    • Getting ready for bed game

    • Reflecting and developing practice
  • 8

    Oral blending and segmenting

    • The final piece of the pre-phonics puzzle

    • Listening to, and saying, the separate sounds in words

    • Practical activities for developing phonemic awareness

    • I hear with my little ear game

    • What is it? game

    • Who is knocking at the door? game

    • What's the word Mr Wolf? game

    • Reflecting and developing practice
  • 9

    Putting everything into practice

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