Phonics Teacher Guide Catch-Up

This teacher guide is an essential resource for using the Phonic Books Catch-Up range for intervention sessions with older readers.

This guide, designed for teachers, provides an overview of phonics, including explanations of key phonic concepts, terms, and methodologies. It offers an overview of the Phonic Books programme, assessment, and guidance for pronunciation and teaching of high-frequency words. There are also structured lesson plans for varying amounts of time, full of engaging and effective activities that are easy to implement.

This phonics catch-up teacher guide features:

• A time-saving guide for teachers to help with lesson planning and preparation.
• Teaching material aimed at children aged 9-12.
• Jargon-busting explanations and step-by-step, easily implemented lessons, especially for anyone new to teaching phonics.
• Activities included, such as word building and word chains, that will engage pupils and implement previously taught skills.

This guide conveniently breaks down each lesson into five main sections: Revision, Preparation, Application, Consolidation, and Tracking Progress. This structure enables each lesson to meet the phonics requirements, as well as more general literacy requirements, ensuring pupils are concurrently learning how to read for meaning from the start.

What is phonics?

Phonics is a way of teaching children to read by understanding the sounds that individual letters make and blending them to form a word. Children can learn to read using this skill to decode new words. Phonic Books specialises in publishing decodable, systematic books supporting this structured literacy instruction.