Course description
This training is designed to support teachers, ESS and teacher assistants to build their professional content and pedagogical knowledge in the area of phonics. It will be connected to Lifting Literacy – Reading Priority, and includes unpacking:
- phonological and phonemic awareness
- concepts of print and the alphabetic principle
- grapho-phonic relationships
- explicit teaching of the phonics component of reading and writing
Course outcomes
Participants will:
- increase their pedagogical content knowledge.
- build curriculum knowledge and understand the progression of learning in phonics.
- Plan, teach and reflect on explicit phonics lessons