Hello Linda
You could try Mr Thorne does phonics on either Youtube / TES or his website. I recently discovered it and it's very popular with my teenage ESOL students.
Kind regards
Elisabeth Emmott
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From: ESOL-Research discussion forum and message board [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ros Wright [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 06 December 2011 16:44
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Subject: Re: Phonics and Phonoogical awareness
Hi Linda
The best results with developing phonic awareness that I ever had were when I taught a Mums group as part of a Family Literacy programme in a primary school. The majority of the mums were ESOL learners, several at Pre-entry level. We had to use the same resources as the children, which happened to be Jolly Phonics , as the whole idea was that they would be supporting their children with their acquisition of phonics in the Reception class. The joy was that it was a structured programme, which continued to quite a high level –covering more than just the basic first and last sounds that you mention. It was also multi-sensory and there was lots of repetition, which was essential for the particular learners I had. It only really worked though, because the parents and children had so much fun doing the actions and reading/spelling together at home.
It’s generally regarded as totally inappropriate to use children’s resources with adults, but if your group are mostly parents with young children, it might be worth investigating the phonic schemes used in local schools and linking to those - on the basis of preparing the parents to help their children/understanding how their children are learning.
I’m no longer teaching ESOL, so haven’t had cause to investigate the resources on the DfE website for a while, but at the time there were quite a lot of resources on there.
However, this is only going to be any use to you with an appropriate group ! Otherwise, I’m sure there are others out there with more relevant ideas!
(I won’t go into the issues about whether synthetic phonics actually works, and the problems of dyslexic students with auditory processing difficulties when confronted with a phonics based learning system!)
Good luck!
Ros Wright
Additional Learning Support Co-ordinator
(Handsworth,Tyseley, Golden Hillock)
Realising Potential, Driving up Success.
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Sent: 06 December 2011 11:04
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Subject: Phonics and Phonoogical awareness
Dear all,
I am an ESOL tutor in Sheffield/Rotherham. I am looking for the best research/ resources on teaching phonics and phonological awareness to ESOL students, especially pre-Entry.
I have read 'Teaching Basic Literacy to ESOL students' but am looking for something that focuses on more than just initial and final letters as I feel students need this in addition to all the meaning-based, learner-focussed work we do.
I have dipped into Adult Literacy sources on this subject but want to know if anyone has any experience of adapting this to ESOL learners
Yours,
Linda Tamir
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