Ruth’s Updates
This newsletter features: Y1 Phonics assessment, “Special Friends, Fred Talk” mantra, analysis, actions to score 25+ and Screening Check events.
Ruth’s Updates
This newsletter features: Ofsted’s draft School Inspection Handbook, Organisation in YR, parent PowerPoints and Phonics expectations.
Ruth’s Updates
This newsletter features: Development Days, practise and Fred Games.
Ruth’s Updates
This newsletter features: assessment, blending, book bands, progress chart and children with speech difficulties.
Guest Blog: Speech sounds – when to be concerned
By Nicola Grove, Honorary Senior Lecturer at University of Kent and Sarah Barnett, Independent Speech and Language Therapist in Somerset We express our ideas to each other through speech. It’s a complex process that takes time. Children develop their ability to articulate sounds and coordinate sequences of sounds into longer words until they are over […]
Ruth’s Updates
This newsletter features: practice films, practise at home, delayed pronunciation of sounds and Pinny Time.
Ruth’s Updates
This newsletter features: subscription films, SOS children, Carousel Four, tutoring films, assessments online and Speed Sound slideshow.
Ruth’s Updates
This newsletter features: stop failure from day one, Y1 Phonics assessment, Early Learning Goals, TLIF recruitment and grouping.
Ruth’s Blog: Show parents what Reception children can do
Few books at home, no magnetic letters on the fridge? Win parents’ support from the very beginning. Show off what their children know in a short parents’ assembly every week. Read a story aloud that your children can join in with. Do a mini-speed-sounds lesson so children can show off the sounds they’ve learnt. Play […]
Ruth’s Blog: Don’t confuse grouping with setting
I had to pass Grade 4 to join the school orchestra. Three years of lessons and practice – just to scrape into the second violins. It was worth it though. Working with better players raised my game. Music lessons are graded so children learn incrementally. Joining an orchestra would be terrifying if you couldn’t play […]