- Detailed
20 minute phonics lesson plans for each day.
NO PLANNING FOR TEACHERS
- Fully
resourced materials which ensure that teachers do not have
to spend time looking for or making resources.
- Cute
Alphie glove puppet to engage and teach children.
- Training
and support from a consultant to guide teachers and ensure
improved results.
- Increased
confidence in knowing that children are being taught phonics
in a fun yet systematic way.
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Phonics Introductory Pages
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The Goal:
Beginning
readers empowered with the knowledge of letters, sounds and sound
blending skills.
The
Solution:
A fun,
fast-paced and systematic phonics programme that builds childrens
skills in phonemic awareness, letter-sound correspondence,
word-level blending and segmenting and beginning spelling.
FastTrack
Phonics is designed for classrooms in which children are just
beginning to read. The sequence of lessons starts with the
phonemic awareness skills of hearing initial sounds, and auditory
blending and segmenting. Detailed lesson plans guide
teachers as they teach phonemes and letter-sound
correspondences. Beginning word structure skills including
adding endings and recognising compound words are also
introduced. The lessons are appropriate for a variety of age
groups and are flexible enough to be customised to the needs of a
particular child, class or group. Group response routines
and co-operative learning activities engage all children in the
lessons. Frequent assessment guides instruction so that
teachers can ensure pupil mastery.
Instructional
Materials:
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Manuals
- A set of three manuals that provide daily lessons and
assessment materials.
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Key
Cards - Colour key cards that link sounds and letters together
to cement letter/sound correspondences in children's minds.
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Partner
Practice Booklets - Powerful interactive practice activities
to build mastery.
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Letter-Blending
Decks - Letter and letter-combination cards teachers use to
demonstrate sound blending.
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Phonics
Picture Card Set - Colour picture cards used in phonemic
awareness and phonics activities.
Professional
Development:
The
Success for All trainer builds a partnership with your school
through training sessions, onsite training and telephone
support. The Professional development provided by the SFA
Consultant is designed to support school leaders and teachers as
they make substantial changes in their approach to classroom
instruction.
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Initial
Training -
The half-day onsite initial training prepares teachers to
implement FastTrack Phonics. The training will focus on:
* Phonemic awareness, decoding and word
recognition strategies.
* Elements of lessons that provide engaging
images, routines and practice needed to ensure success for
each child.
* Assessment processes and adaptations to lessons
based on assessments to meet individual and group needs.
* Training in beginning levels of co-operative
learning.
* Support for administrators on monitoring and
improving programme implementation.
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Goal-Focused
Achievement Planning -
Goal-focused achievement planning sets the stage for
success. School leaders and your SFA Consultant develop
specific goals and monitor children's progress.
* Your Trainer works with teachers to review
children's data, set goals for progress and develop plans for
achieving those goals.
* Every 8 weeks teachers, school leaders and the
SFA Consultant review pupil progress data.
* Goals for interventions for the following
quarter are planned based on the data.
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Ongoing
Training and Support
As the year progresses your SFA Consultant will have a
variety of ways to work with you to review your progress,
refine your goals and strengthen your instruction.
* Following initial planning, telephone meetings
to answer questions and troubleshooting will be scheduled.
* At least one support visit each year is
recommended to observe children's reading in classrooms, meet
with teachers and administrators, review data on children's
progress and set new goals (£250 per half day).
* Unlimited, informal telephone support is
available for all staff members.
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