African Sunshine Phonics Overview
New African Series With Real Stories Using Words That Children Can Read!
The Sunshine Phonics Decodables series teaches children phonics skills in a sequential and systematic way so that they can learn the sounds (phonemes) and the letters that represent them (graphemes) and then practice and apply this knowledge through reading a text that makes sense. This ensures that every beginning reader will experience success in their reading from their very first book!
Stage One of Sunshine Phonics
Decodables features:
- 60 enjoyable stories in 30 books (each book is 32 pages plus cover)
- Systematic progression for learning the sounds (phonemes) and the letters that represent them (graphemes) in the English language
- Decodable vocabulary with some tricky words
- Introduction of 23 phonemes of English
- Introduction of all consonants and short vowels with a focus on VC and CVC words
- Full-colour illustrations to support meaning
- Students enjoy the familiarity of culturally relevant characters and real-life situations
- 60 Teacher Cards – one per story
- 31 Sound Cards
- 124 page Student Activity Book
Teacher's Cards For Easy Learning!
A lesson reference card for teachers is provided for
every story.
The cards are easy to use and detail key learning objectives with individual teaching notes.
Content of the Stage 1 lesson plans:
Brief summary of the story
- List of phonemes being learnt
- Learning intention for the story
- Before Reading focus, including vocabulary and decoding practice
- During Reading focus, including comprehension support
- After Reading focus, including Fluency
- Introduction of the Activities and suggestions for Extension Activities
- These laminated cards can be used across multiple classrooms.
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