1 WHAT is PHONICS ? : Learning to read and write

For All teachers, heads, coordinators, educational therapists involved in the reading and writing process in the early years of primary school Objectives: Understand and learn about the process of the acquisition of reading and writing, how we learn to read and write, how the brain learns. Learn about Systematic Synthetic Phonics and how to apply it in the classroom. How to develop reading comprehension. Content: Literacy and its process: How the brain works in the reading process. The simple view of reading and writing. The Bilingual brain: English and Spanish alphabetic codes, similarities and differences. The 2 processes of Literacy: Development of Oral language, comprehension, composition and Word recognition: Systematic Synthetic Phonics, spelling, handwriting. Developing Oral Language through stories, poems and rhymes, description, sequencing and retelling. The Phonics skills: Letter sound correspondences, Blending, Segmenting and handwriting. Teaching and Learning cycle. Phonics programmes. BANNERS/POSTERS: Silvina Vilar abcfunphonics@gmail.com