
What comes before phonics?
Sally Neaum(Author)
SAGE Publications Ltd (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Published on 22. April 2025
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-0362-0075-6 (ISBN)
Description
What comes before phonics?
The teaching of phonics is strongly embedded in early literacy teaching in schools and early years settings. It has been shown to be an important part of becoming literate. There is, however, significant concern about the formalising of phonics teaching for very young children.
So what should we be focusing on in the early years?
What comes before this formal teaching?
What do children need to know and experience to enable them to access phonics teaching with success?
This book looks in detail at the knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes that children need to enable them to come to phonics teaching ready to learn and with a good chance of success. It explores a range of aspects of young children's learning that lead into literacy, and includes practical advice on how to translate this into practice.
The Third Edition has been updated throughout and includes new content on reading for pleasure and a new 'Thinking about practice' feature.
The teaching of phonics is strongly embedded in early literacy teaching in schools and early years settings. It has been shown to be an important part of becoming literate. There is, however, significant concern about the formalising of phonics teaching for very young children.
So what should we be focusing on in the early years?
What comes before this formal teaching?
What do children need to know and experience to enable them to access phonics teaching with success?
This book looks in detail at the knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes that children need to enable them to come to phonics teaching ready to learn and with a good chance of success. It explores a range of aspects of young children's learning that lead into literacy, and includes practical advice on how to translate this into practice.
The Third Edition has been updated throughout and includes new content on reading for pleasure and a new 'Thinking about practice' feature.
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
574 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0362-0075-6 (9781036200756)
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Person
Sally Neaum is a lecturer in Early Childhood, and teaches Primary English in initial teacher training. She has worked as a nursery and primary school teacher, as an advisor in early years and inclusion. She has an M.Ed in Educational Psychology and Special Educational Needs and her doctoral research was in the pedagogy of early literacy.
Content
1 Early literacy: the current context
2 Leading into literacy
3 Speaking and listening
4 Physical foundations of literacy
5 Metalinguistic development
6 Print awareness
7 Symbolising and representation
8 Phonological awareness
2 Leading into literacy
3 Speaking and listening
4 Physical foundations of literacy
5 Metalinguistic development
6 Print awareness
7 Symbolising and representation
8 Phonological awareness