Teaching phonics at Minishant Primary
Children's reading skills are based on good phonic knowledge. At Minishant, they use many different classroom games and activities which are phonic based. Many of these involve the whole class working together.
One of these activities is the talking and listening morning, where the children were invited to bring in something and to talk about it. They took turns at speaking about their object, and the others then asked questions. Afterwards, each pupil wrote about somebody else’s object. So it was important to listen carefully to each speaker.
This activity always took place as a multi-composite group, involving P1-P3 pupils. This benefited the younger pupils, whose learning progressed quicker because of their interaction with their older peer group.
| Minishant Primary: Learning using phonics | |
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| Description | A video clip showing a classroom lesson from Minishant Primary using phonics. |
| Duration | 2 minutes 54 seconds |
| Windows version |  Windows Media video: Minishant Primary: Learning with phonics |
| Mac version |  QuickTime movie: Minishant Primary: Learning with phonics |
| Transcript | Minishant Primary: Learning with phonics |
Active learning
Find further examples of Minishant's active learning approach, covering topics such as coins, science and sorting/matching, at Active learning in Minishant