Practice Books
The Practice Books lead into the decodable stories. They make synthetic phonics skills easy and automatic before children take on sentences, grammar and stories.
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The Practice Books cover Steps 1 and 2 of the 8 Steps of Phonics: recognising grapheme–phoneme correspondences and blending to read decodable words. Every word in them is 100% decodable using only the phonemes children have already learned. There are no picture clues and the focus is on single words, so children build confidence quickly.
Each unit also includes a camera word book. The video covers using the books in guided reading and rotations (six copies of the same book), one-to-one with a 1:1 set, and as home readers.
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