Abi Steel: Joining-up phonics support

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Abi Steel: Joining-up phonics support

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IFERI committee member Abigail Steel has written this article for SEN Magazine

Joining-up phonics support
Abigail Steel provides five steps to improve phonics inclusivity in mainstream classrooms

https://senmagazine.co.uk/home/uncatego ... cs-support
On paper, everything that was in place for these children was great. They had caring, capable class teachers, received regular support from dedicated and competent TAs and participated in weekly intervention sessions delivered by outside specialists. But something niggled at those TAs. They weren’t ready to accept that the children’s apparent lack of progress and low self-esteem was simply “because of the children’s difficulties”.

So we started looking in more depth at what the children could and couldn’t yet do, talking about them in a holistic, whole-child centred way, exploring their personalities, their classwork, and investigating what actually took place in the classroom, during TA intervention and during LA intervention. What we discovered, in a nutshell, is that everybody’s finest attempts to provide the teaching the children needed were resulting in a fragmented and disjointed experience for the children.
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