English Fast With Phonics – Teaching Letter Combinations and Sounds
Instant Literacy Resource –
Tailored For Teachers – No Training Required
Teachers’ time is critical and every teacher needs simple, easy-to-use resources that produce results. English Fast with Phonics is fast, efficient and provides qualitative success in improving educational levels and achievements.
The English Fast with Phonics programme is an effective tool that, with 15 minute sessions, enhances and accelerates students’ abilities to read, spell and write. The online video programme is classroom inclusive, addressing the differentiated learning needs of students.
Although Professional Development is available, it is not necessary. The online digital videos are pre-packaged lessons. Just play them on the big screen through your laptop.
When it comes to Phonics – Let the Digital Videos do the Work.
In just eight weeks, by delivering the programme for ½ hour once or twice a week, students of a Year 1/2 composite class lifted their reading levels, by one, two or three levels. Students’ confidence in writing and spelling also improved.
Accelerate Your Students’ Results
English Fast with Phonics can be a stand-alone resource or can turbo boost your existing phonics programme.
It is an essential tool with unprecedented results. With its ‘synthetic’ or synthesising approach, English Fast with Phonics is tailored to enhance and complement any programme. English Fast with Phonics when used to deliver phonemic education and awareness provides the educator with a quick, easy to deliver resource which generates immediate results.
English Fast with Phonics is designed to quickly advance students’ success in reading, spelling and writing.
That’s the best professional development I’ve done in years. I really enjoyed it. I loved it! Easy to implement in the classroom.
Phonic Awareness – Decoding The Language
By introducing all the sounds, in a fun and fast paced strategy, English Fast with Phonics quickly empowers the students to acquire the tools to decode the written symbols we call letters.
As the sounds of letters vary depending upon how and where they are grouped, English Fast with Phonics is designed with visual and oral cueing allowing students to automatically recognise letter combinations. As they learn all the phonemes, their pronunciation of sounds broadens and their understanding of the phonetic relationship between letters improves dramatically.
With the English Fast with Phonics video subscription, you empower yourself to support your students’ abilities to read and write – two of the greatest gifts to set them up for life.
English Fast with Phonics:
– produces results FAST
– builds teachers’ skills in phonics FAST
– empowers confidence and success in literacy FAST
– improves students’ reading, spelling and writing FAST.
English Fast with Phonics is:
– a resource for every classroom
– relevant for all ages
– engaging and fun
– an excellent resource for literacy groups, reading groups and whole class activities.
Getting Better Results in the Classroom
Thank you for teaching me Phonics. It taught me so much. It mostly helped with my writing and spelling. I hope you can teach me more Phonics so I can memorise them more.
Improved Spelling
Literacy consultants emphasise the importance of tracking words while reading. Tracking words, from the first letter to the last, is also critical in writing. When students become aware of the connection between the sounds of the language and the letters that make the sounds, a new world opens. To say a word and then know the letter options to make the different sounds of that word, the individual holds the key to literacy. Through the fun and fast-paced practice of saying and reading graphemes, children begin to automatically recognise what letters make what sounds. With this knowledge, a new foundation of confidence and enquiry arises, and students improve their spelling – one of the many key elements of writing.
Boys in Literacy
Studies have shown that boys, in general, struggle with literacy. Without the phonetical understanding of letters and words, everything that is written can prove a challenge. As written communication gains ever-increasing importance in one’s life, it can become a quite confronting time for anyone having difficulty understanding or writing written text. Young people want to achieve and they want to have fun with their peers. If they are not coping and they aren’t given the chance to succeed, self-worth can dimmish quickly and expectations and/or personal goals can seem insurmountable. English Fast with Phonics takes out the guesswork of reading and writing and provides a bridge to success and confidence.
Phonics in the Digital Age
Technology is moving faster than most areas of knowledge and expertise; however, we still need to access and comprehend information. Language is communication, and although the digital age has brought about many changes to the way we gain and deliver information, we still require the ability and skill of reading and writing. Literacy coaches still emphasise the importance of our oral and written language. As we read aloud or have our digital devices read for us, the sounds of the words are converted by our brains into meaning and comprehension. As we type words onto our screen – from our keyboard – or speak words into our digital devices, sounds – or symbols of sounds – emerge for our brains to decipher and add meaning. Literacy and the importance of phonics is as critical in the current age as it ever was.
Merrilyn delivered an excellent phonics programme at Maungawhau School. She went into each class separately and teachers appreciated seeing this programme modelled with their very own children. Each lesson was kept at a fast enough pace to keep the children engaged, and Merrilyn was happy to talk with teachers about any questions they had.
By observing Merrilyn, teachers were able to learn new strategies for teaching phonics, and very clearly see how these can be implemented with their own children.
A Must Have Phonics Resource
Extra Benefits For The Students
Studies show:
Children’s behaviour improves when they have mastered the skill of reading.
As students gain knowledge of the sounds that are made up by the combinations of letters, they are empowered with confidence.
They begin venturing out and trialling the pronunciation of previously unseen words.
They quickly connect these sounds with words they have heard before.
With ease and confidence, the skill of reading is acquired, and this naturally flows on to spelling and writing.
Let the videos do the work – project them on the big screen in the classroom.
The PowerPoint below provides a more detailed look into the English Fast with Phonics approach.
English Fast With Phonics PowerPoint
