Synthetic Phonics
Debbie Hepplewhite is a phonics specialist and promotes children reading using sounds.
Before you watch her learning videos it may be useful to access these introductions to synthetic phonics.
A quick introduction to synthetic phonics:
- A more detailed overview of what we mean by synthetic phonics:
- Effective Reading Instruction and Phonics Pre-Recorded Webinar. This is a comprehensive guide to the teaching of phonics and includes detailed theory behind her research.
There are also notes to download for this Webinar. Click on this link to access it: Phonics Training
- Debbie gives examples of each phonemes and graphemes:
- Debbie discusses the different ways to make the same sound but with different letters:
- Continued here:
- Debbie explains how we teach the sounds, looking for the sounds in words and the beginning of blending the words and spelling.
Synthetic Phonics
- Phonics in a classroom:
