The text here is taken straight from Philip and Tacey's advertising material for SP's Synthetic Phonix. When Sue gets a minute she intends to rewrite this page so it doesn't sound so much like showing off. However, she IS very pleased indeed with the way the phonix cubes have worked out.
- Sue's teacher's notes are a welcome find. She treats the subject of phonics with a refreshingly light touch, simplifies the issues and outlines a practical approach that will really work, right away, in a classroom of children of varying abilities at KS1.
- Sue's child-centred approach introduces a little more magic to learning about the composition of words. Her "Magic Spells" activity, for example, will have your pupils hunting down the rule behind the spelling pattern. They won't know they are learning - but they are!
- When your pupils build up and break down words with Sue Palmer's Synthetic Phonix, they're doing it physically. The interlocking cubes are made to our exciting standards so this is one kinaesthetic resource that's satisfying to use and so durable your pupils can come back to it time and time again.
- You can introduce this resource into your teaching with the minimum of fuss.
Set 1 offers an opportunity for children to cover essential groundwork. They'll build
CVC, CCVC, CVCC and even CCCVC words with long and short vowels, consonants and consonant digraphs. Set 2 builds on this by widening the range of sounds to consonant digraphs, long vowels and other commonly used vowel sounds. This way you know that your pupis are tackling phonics for reading first, then turning to phonics for writing only when they are ready
for it.
- If you use Sue Palmer's Synthetic Phonix, you're not embarking on a huge programme or unwieldy system that will knock every other phonics resource you've ever bought out of the English resource cupboard. It's a low key investment that can slot
in neatly with what you are already doing to provide the sort of phonics teaching that
is now being recommended.
For further information or to buy Synthetic Phonix visit the Philip&Tracy website by clicking on the link below;
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