[senco-forum] Re Literacy

Dear Eddie 
You talk about Synthetic Phonics for children in Year 2 who are failing to  
learn to read, as an intervention, but in fact the surely the  recommendation 
is that SP is taught from Nursery / Reception as the first  strategy - allowing 
children who are not progressing to be picked up much  earlier, and for 
strategies and interventions other than SP to be included at a  much earlier age.  
I really don't think, from my own experience, that young  children - even the 
ones who come to school reading already - will find the SP  experience 
boring... As teachers we will all differentiate anyway, whether it is  SP or analytic 
phonics or whole words or real books etc etc .  Good  teaching, opportunities 
to develop phonological awareness skills at the earliest  possible age and 
pacey, appropriate SP will surely help most children and help  us pick up those 
who will benefit from a different strategy.

Anusia
Primary SENCO