Joy Allcock DVD Chapter 1 - Blending, deleting and substituting sounds

Some key main points that I got out of watching the first section:

• Words are strings of sounds


• That we use letters in various combinations to write these sounds down.


• That the same sound can be written in many different ways


• That the same letter or spelling pattern can be pronounced in different ways.

She also drew attention to it doesn't matter how old you are you can always relearn the sounds as long as the four main understandings are ingrained.

So where to for me and my practise

Teach the sounds and let students that this can be written in many differnet ways.

Over the holidays to read parts that I need to teach in relation to the GAP analysis test.