Teaching irregular words

Overview

This video shows two teachers discussing why and how to teach irregular words as part of a systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) approach.

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Who is this video for?

Foundation to Year 2 teachers; school leaders.

What will you learn?

Why teach irregular words as part of a SSP approach.

A process for teaching early irregular words to beginning readers.

A process for teaching irregular words to developing readers.

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Literacy Hub Phonics Progression

The Literacy Hub phonics progression includes a sequence of letter–sound correspondences, phonics skills and irregular words for development across Foundation to Year 2.

Phonics professional learning: Implementing a systematic synthetic phonics approach

The Literacy Hub’s free, online professional learning series to support schools through each step of building a SSP approach for reading and spelling.


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