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...continued from previous page...How does Sue Palmer's Synthetic Phonix help my pupils?
6. It's multi-sensory
When your pupils build up and break down words with Sue Palmer's Synthetic Phonix, they're doing it physically.
The interlocking cubes are made to our exciting
standards so this is one kinaesthetic resource that's satisfying to use and so durable your pupils can come back to it time and time again.
7. It's cumulative
You can introduce this
resource into your teaching with the minimum of fuss.
Set 1 offers an opportunity for children to cover essential groundwork. They'll build
CVC, CCVC, CVCC and even CCCVC words with long and short vowels, consonants and consonant digraphs. Set 2 builds on this by widening the range of sounds to consonant digraphs, long vowels and other commonly used vowel sounds. This way you know that your pupis are tackling phonics for reading first, then turning to phonics for writing only when they are ready
for it.
8. It fits in with what you are doing already
If you use Sue Palmer's Synthetic Phonix, you're not embarking on a huge programme or unwieldy system that will knock every other phonics resource you've ever bought out of the English resource cupboard. It's a low key investment that can slot
in neatly with what you are already doing to provide the sort of phonics teaching that
is now being recommended.
9. It's affordable
Each set costs only £6.99 and if you'd like to take it to the whole class there are multiple sets of Set 1 and Set 2 available in packs of 16 for £99.00 each. You can also buy booster sets of vowels and consonants for just £3.99.
Sue Palmer's Synthetic Phonix Set 1
Develop essential phonics
skills for reading with the first of two cumulative sets. Children build up words with
40 colour-coded cubes featuring the phonemes
shown below.
Set 1 contains 40 colour-coded, interlocking cubes
in a "Bag of Sounds" plus teacher's notes by Sue Palmer
Consonants
Consonant digraphs
Short vowels
Long vowels
Where appropriate, there is a capital letter on one facet of the four on the cube, so children are challenged to decide on whether a lower case or initial capital letter is needed. Also includes a "Bag of Sounds" into which children can add their cubes as they progress. Both the sets of 16 and the single set also come with a copy of Sue Palmer's 12-page book of teacher's notes.
Single Set 1
Contains 40 cubes, a "Bag of Sounds" and 12-page booklet of A5 teaching notes.
15013 Set £7.99
Class Set 1
Contains 16 x 40 cubes, 16 x "Bag of Sounds" and 1 x 12-page booklet of teacher's notes.
14778 16 Sets £110.00
Sue Palmer' Synthetic Phonix Set 2
When your pupils are ready to learn about spelling patterns
as part of phonics for writing, turn to this, the second of the two cumulative sets. Pupils
can make and deconstruct words build from a
combination of cubes from
this set and Set 1. Contains
40 colour-coded interlocking cubes featuring the phonemes and spellings shown below.
There's also a 12-page teacher's notes booklet by
Sue Palmer and a "Bag of Spellings" that adds another dimension to spelling
activities.
Set 2 contains 40 colour-coded, interlocking cubes
in a "Bag of Spellings" plus teacher's notes by Sue Palmer
Consonant digraphs
Long vowels and 2 x final
silent 'e'
Other vowel phoemes
This is not a stand alone resource and is for use in conjunction with Set 1.
Single Set 2
Contains 40 cubes, a "Bag of Spellings" and 12-page
booklet of A5 teaching notes.
15014 Set £7.99
Class Set 2
Contains 16 x 40 cubes, 16 x "Bag of Sounds" and 1 x 12-page booklet of teacher's notes.
14779 16 Sets £110.00
