LAGOS JOLLY PHONICS WORKSHOP IS HERE AGAIN!!!


All ‘phonics’ involves teaching letter-sound correspondences. The adjective ‘synthetic’ refers to the fact that children are taught to ‘synthesize’ (i.e. put together or build up) pronunciations for unfamiliar written words by translating letters into sounds and blending the sounds together (‘blending = ‘synthesising’). ‘Analytic’ phonics focuses more on the analysis of words after they have been identified in some other way – for example by being supplied by the teacher, recognised as 'sight-words' or guessed from pictures or context.

Synthetic phonics teaches all (or most) common letter-sound correspondences in a matter of weeks. This is essential, because children have no other strategy than sounding and blending to use in identifying unfamiliar words.

The Jolly Phonics Workshop for Teachers, Parents and Individuals holds in Lagos on Saturday, 21st NOVEMBER, 2015.

TIME: 8 AM.