No Nonsense Phonics Skills – Pupil Book 2 (Pack of 6 – Same Title)

Inside front cover pages of Book 2:

The Alphabetic Code – Building Up the Sounds and Graphemes chart with adult guidance ‘post-its’ about the alphabetic code introduced, plus full description of ‘The complexities of the English Alphabetic Code’

‘Core’ Multi-skills Activities pages for every letter/s-sound correspondence introduced systematically in Books 1 to 8 (these alternate with the Mini Story pages):

Phonemic awareness, letter formation, oral segmenting, encoding and decoding are featured throughout Books 1 to 8. In Book 9, the Multi-skills Activities pages are replaced with featured Spelling Word Banks (for example: ‘Same grapheme, different sounds’; ‘Same sound, different graphemes’)

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In Book 2, the phonics sub-skill for decoding (reading) of seeing the letter/s and ‘saying the sounds’ is practised with both lower case and equivalent capital letters as code for the same sounds.

‘Core’ Mini Story pages:

The sentences of the Mini Stories are always shown on writing lines throughout the series. High-frequency words, tricky words and words with unusual code (letter/s-sound correspondences) and additional (incidental) letter/s-sound correspondences are introduced via the Mini Story pages.

Grammar guidance for Book 2: Talk about sentences, spaces between words, punctuation, titles and the use of capital letters for beginning sentences, proper nouns and titles.

‘Summary pages’ in Book 2 (at the end of the book) revise and assess the content in the book:

–  Letter Formation

–  Spelling and Writing

–  Spelling Word Banks: for –ll, –ff and –ss

–  Common Words: Speed Reading and Writing

–  Revise the Letter/s-sound Correspondences

–  Challenge: How many picture-words can you see and spell on the front cover of this book?

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