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Date Posted:08:04:46 07/29/08 Tue
The phonics program I looked at for this exercise was “Letters and Sounds” which is a new program created by the government to replace their existing program “ Progression in Phonics” and “Playing with Sounds” The program is huge and very systematic . I found it hard to find any gaps in the sequence in which the letters were taught. However, I did feel that the letter “s” making not only the sound /s/ in plurals e.g. “tips”, but also /z/ as in “peas” could have been discussed more. It is talked about in the discussions of words such as “is”, “his” and “was” though. The greatest difference I could find between this program and the recommendations of the course were the order in which some of the sounds were taught. For example, consonant diagraphs and a number of vowel diagraphs are taught (course levels 3, 4 & 6) before consonant blends (course level 2). Furthermore, the “Letters and Sounds” program doesn’t include the magic ‘e’ rule simply teaching these cases as split diagraphs. I would conclude though, that I liked the program and I think it would be very easy to follow and use. I would be very interested to hear what anybody else thinks of this program or indeed any other program that people have looked at.
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