Fun Reading With Phonics for parents, carers and new teacher
What you'll learn
- You will learn 'why' using Synthetic Phonics is a valuable and worthwhile reading strategy.
- You will learn to teach letter sounds and link those sounds to letter names using picture cues and actions.
- If you have a child where English is a second language, using phonics early will help correct pronunciation of English sounds and words.
- You will be able to help your child to decode words using techniques for segmenting and blending.
- You'll be able to help you child identify 'sight words' (high frequency words) in context and isolation
- You'll use simple monitoring tools to assess your child's progress
- From the course materials you can create your own resource library
Requirements
- The only real requirement is that you have a desire to teach young learners to read using phonics - either in the classroom or at home.
- Access to a printer to download and use the resources and materials
Description
Reading is an absolutely essential life skill that will enable future success, in school, college and later in work. This course is designed to help you understand the basics of using phonics as a key reading strategy. It provides an overall introduction to phonics and gives you tools to use that will help lay down a foundation for reading fluency.
In each section we discuss reasons for using phonics. You will find lots of very colourful resources (with a value of more than $70) that will give you hands-on practise. You can download directly from within the course itself and they are free for you to use.
Working through four critical stages
1. You will get used to using the sounds of the alphabet, rather than letter names.
2. You will help your child to match sounds to letters
3. As you progress you will learn how to sequence phonemes, and use resources such as picture cues, and some crazy, crazy actions (TPR) that your child will love to engage with.
4. You will explore and learn techniques to present the first 100 high frequency words (sight words), that are a bit 'tricky' because they can't be decoded.
5. You will move on to digraphs that can be a bit challenging. Here you'll understand the different types of digraphs and how to show your child so they can begin to read more complex words and texts.
Your lead instructor for the course, Brenda Martin is a literacy a specialist and primary/elementary school teacher with more than 35 years experience in the UK and overseas with many international children. Brenda simplifies the use of phonics for you the parent, and for teachers who are new to phonics. With a wide range of resources for you to download and use, work along with Brenda and quickly master the steps to teach your children to read in a way that is motivating and fun for both kids and adults alike.
Brenda's relaxed manner, clear knowledge and expertise makes this course a must for anyone who wants to provide early reading support to their children.
Who this course is for:
- Essentially for parents or carers who want a better understanding of phonics and how they can support their children's early reading development.
- Teachers or assistants - particularly ESL teachers - who are new to working with phonics.
- Parent or teachers where English is not a first language, to improve pronunciation of English sounds early on
Instructors
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 189 Reviews
- 668 Students
- 2 Courses
I am a professionally qualified Education Specialist. I consider my mission as helping to enable my clients to fulfil their potential.
Beginning my career in Human Resource Development (Training ) I have worked with employees in relation to skills development, resume analysis, talent and progression. I consult on curriculum design and implementation from elementary to higher education.
A hugely competent teacher trainer and educator I have consolidated my expertise from over 30 years of professional experience.
I now specialise in
1. Career Change Coaching: for teachers and educators who have arrived at a transition point
2. Education & Training Consulting: working with public and private organisations to support curriculum & materials design and development
Having worked in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, my clients come from all walks of life including university undergraduates to PhD level, and international business professionals .
Now with more than 30+ years’ experience I am still totally passionate about what I do and believe that everyone has the potential to achieve great things.
I love the opportunities that platforms such as Udemy provide for both students and instructors.
Today I am the the co-author on Udemy of Fun Reading With Phonics developed after 5 years training elementary level teachers in Malaysian state schools. It was fun to create and now I hope that for you it's fun to learn
I very much look forward to working with you :-)
- 4.3 Instructor Rating
- 185 Reviews
- 638 Students
- 1 Course
I'm a qualified and highly experienced teaching professional. For me teaching has always been a vocation. I worked in primary education for more than 30 years and latterly spent nearly 10 years working with the Ministry of Education in Malaysia as a Teacher Trainer and mentor. I specialise in young learners and have always been deeply passionate about holistic teaching practices.
From my experience I believe that young children have an instinctive passion for learning. They are curious about the world and eager to participate in a variety of ways. I've always believed that children learn from hands on activities that motivate and are fun. As such I always make my teaching as practical as possible.
Children learn in many different ways, and at different rates. It is therefore up to practitioners to provide a variety of learning experiences and cater for different learning styles and abilities.
I've retired from mainstream teaching but when offered the opportunity to work in Malaysia for the Ministry of Education, I couldn't resist - so off I went, not realising that it would be nearly 10 years before I returned to Europe.
Although not particularly tech-savvy, I was told about Udemy by a friend. I am so pleased to have yet another opportunity to continue sharing my experience, skills and knowledge and am certainly looking forward to working with my students.