Tag Archives: Synthetic Phonics

Making phonics look fun. ‘Teach Your Monster to Read’

Posted on septiembre 28 - 2014 by | 4 Comments

I have to recognize that phonetics has always been the least appealing aspect of learning/teaching the English language for me. Being a Spanish speaker, it is quite scary when the very first thing you are told to learn by heart is the IPA chart, specially if your teacher’s accent had nothing to do with the […]

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The five skills to learn to read and to write.

Posted on septiembre 28 - 2014 by | 1 Comment

Literacy necessarily involves the ability of knowing, recognizing and making the sounds of letters -phonemes -, and the way they are represented –graphemes-. The teaching of both phonemes and graphemes is basic for teaching reading and writing, and it represents one of the biggest challenges to which past, present and future teachers, especially the ones […]

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