Frequently Asked Questions

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Sassoon is widely used in the UK and recommended for use with dyslexics.

Primer is widely used in North America and other countries.

Photo mnemonics (e.g. snake for s) are great for dyslexics and SEN.

Illustrated mnemonics offer an image that mimic the shape of the letters to help with formation and recall.

Also known as structured literacy and the science of reading, systematic synthetic phonics is an evidence-based, structured approach to teaching children to read. 

• Systematic: teach systematically in an order e.g. the letter s followed by a then t then p.
• Synthetic: to synthesise individual phonemes, from left to right all through the word.
• Phonics is hearing and identifying letter sounds and matching them to their letters or letter patterns. e.g. ‘ai’ makes an ‘ai’ sound.

GPC stands for grapheme-phoneme correspondence. Knowing a GPC means being able to match a phoneme to a grapheme and vice versa. A phoneme is a unit of sound and a grapheme is the way a sound is written. In the Grow the Code guidance GPCs are refered to as letter-sounds.

These are words that have one or more unusual letter sequences e.g. is, the, people

Note: the first tricky word taught is included with the lesson for /i/. Further guidance is provided on how to teach tricky words before this lesson.

After you have revisited the previously learnt letter-sounds as part of your daily phonics lesson, you can click on the speedy sounds button. This will only show the letter-sounds, not the mnemonics.

This means that the letter-sound is one of the 44 sounds in the english language. The alternative spellings of these sounds do not have the // beside them. e.g. /ai/ ay, a-e, ey, eigh, aigh.

Yes - our Letters and Sounds - the Code programme has been validated by the DfE.

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