Demonstration of a phonics lesson

Overview

Literacy specialists Elaine Stanley and Rebecca McEwan present this demonstration of a phonics lesson using explicit instruction principles.  

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Resources mentioned in this video

Sample phonics lesson (standard) [0:13]

Phonological and phonemic awareness lesson activities [0:40]

Phonics instructional model for reading and spelling [17:25]

Phonics pair-games template [17:49]

Who is this video for? 

Foundation to Year 2 teachers; school leaders 

What will you learn? 

How to implement a standard phonics lesson using explicit instruction principles. 

Presenters 

Elaine Stanley and Rebecca McEwan are experienced teachers, school leaders and literacy coaches. They have had extensive experience implementing systematic synthetic phonics in primary school classrooms, and have recently coached disadvantaged school around Australia.  

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