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How the Brain Learns to Read...
Cognitive psychology and neuroscience have begun to dissect the neuronal mechanisms of literacy using brain-imaging techniques. During reading acquisition, our brain circuitry recycles several of its pre-existing visual and auditory...
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Phonics Debate
15 years ago the UK government commissioned an independent review of the primary curriculum. As a result Synthetic Phonics was made mandatory in all English and Welsh primary schools as of...
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Why you should be using synthetic...
Don't be frightened by the term systematic synthetic phonics. Systematic means teaching in a sequence beginning with the letter / sounds that can make the most words (s,a,t,p). Synthetic Phonics means synthesising (sounding...
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