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Getting into the spooky spirit! 👻🎃 A few of our favourite Phonics Hero games for some Halloween-themed phonics fun!
🎃 👻 🕸️ It's spoooooooooky season!
Get your hands on our FREE Halloween Phonics Spelling Worksheets, with easy, hard and advanced options.
Fun, and full of phonics practice.✏️
Download them here: phonicshero.com/wp-content/u…
What is blending?
For those starting their phonics journey, you need to know that blending is:
🧠 The gluing together of sounds to read a word.
A child breaks the word apart into its individual sounds and puts them back together to read a word.
Preschool teachers — when practising phonemic awareness skills:
✅Don’t just focus on the initial sound of a word — help children hear phonemes anywhere in a word.
🖐️Use phoneme fingers so students can see the position of each sound in a word.
A simple but powerful visual! ✨
📚 Teaching a mix of native and second language learners?
You’re juggling early phonics 𝑎𝑛𝑑 early vocabulary, at the same time. So what does that actually look like in practice?
🧑🏫 Read John Martin’s blog post on his experience in an ESL classroom: phonicshero.com/phonics-and-…
Do you know what a diphthong is?
It's one vowel sound made by gliding between two mouth positions within the same syllable - like 'oi', 'ow' and 'oy'.
Most vowels sit in one position. Diphthongs move.🕺
🤔 Wondering what phonics looks like in each school year?
Our guide covers what most children can do in Reception/Kindy, Year 1 and Year 2 - plus what might slow progress, and when phonics teaching really stops.
🔍 Read it here: phonicshero.com/phonics-leve…
🍎📚 Welcome back to a new school year! For any questions or help getting set up, get in touch: [email protected]
"ea" in "bread" ≠ "ea" in "bean" ≠ "ea" in "break" 😖
This is code overlap - and it's exactly why phonics needs explicit teaching, not guessing.
When a team has multiple pronunciations: name it. Discuss it. Don't skip it.
"Bossy e." "Magic e." "Silent e."
⛔ ✋ Stop saying these.
The e in "bike" isn't silent or bossy - it's split from its vowel team partner. "i_e" is one spelling, not two rules governing the 'i' and the 'e'.
Learn more in our split digraphs blog post: phonicshero.com/how-to-teach…
From decoding… to understanding. 🚀
The final game in every Part 3 level challenges children to read and comprehend a passage of decodable text. Because the goal of phonics isn’t just reading words — it’s unlocking stories. 📚
Summer is a LONG time without phonics! Why not give your kids some guilt-free screen time?
Just 10 mins of Phonics Hero a day keeps reading and spelling ticking over - they think it’s play, you know it’s learning! 💪
Try it free: phonicshero.com/parents-sign…
And that's a rap! We wish our educator friends in the Northern hemisphere a very enjoyable summer holiday 😎☀️!
Are you teaching syllable types to your advanced learners? It boosts their reading and spelling accuracy! 💥✨
Rather than rushing your high performers through the phonics sequence, give them breadth — teach syllable types! 📚🧠
If your phonemes aren’t ‘pure’… Kids might get by in reading, but spelling? That’s where it all goes 'bada'! 😅
Make sure you’re not adding extra vowels, like “tuh” or “puh”, to the ends of sounds — it makes a huge difference for spelling success. ✍️
Phonemic Awareness: You can do it in the dark!
No letters, no visuals — just ears👂👂
It's the foundation of all skilled decoders!
Most parents understand the importance of learning the sounds. But what comes next is just as important - and often trickier. 🤔
Our blog post shows you how to help your child to blending the sounds into their very first words - at home! 🏡✨
👉 phonicshero.com/how-to-teach…
Still teaching one sound a week?
At that pace, blending & segmenting can get stuck in slow motion. 🐢
⚡ Try 3–4 sounds a week and watch progress take off! 🚀
