Direct Phonics is a research based intervention for those children struggling with basic literacy. The teaching method follows a routine of 'model-lead-check' that ensures success with new learning. Each lesson has the same predictable pattern and takes about 20 minutes. The clear instructions can be followed by both teachers and teaching assistants. Each book contains 60 lessons.
BOOK ONE covers single letter sounds, c-v-c words and a selection of sight words for sentences. From the very start, letter recognition leads to word building and sentence reading and writing.
BOOK TWO follows the same patters as Book One and includes consonant blends at the beginnings and ends of words together with additional phonemes - ee, ay, ar, ing, ow, oo, ea.
BOOK THREE teaches children to read and write polysyllabic words (e.g. mar-ma-lade). All activities draw on the themes and vocabulary of stories included in the manual.
Dr Rea Reason
Senior Lecturer in Education, The University of Manchester
Jo Wilson
Educational Psychologist and Author