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Lesson plans and teacher guidance for implementing Fresh Start

Table of Contents

Getting started
1: Introduction
2: Fresh Start resources
3: Route through Fresh Start
4: Learn the sound system
5: Manners matter
6: Practice matters
Assessment and progress:
1: Assessment Pupil Sheet
2: Individual Progress Record
Speed Sounds lesson plans:
Part 1: Set 1 Speed sounds - single-letter sounds
Part 2: Blending sounds into words
Part 3: Word Time 1.1 to 1.5
Part 4: Set 1 Speed Sounds - Best Friends
Part 5: Word Time 1.6 and 1.7
Part 6: Set 2 and Set 3 Speed Sounds
Modules:
Introductory Module
- Timetable
- Activities for one-to-one tutoring
- Module-specific teaching notes
Modules 1 to 33
- Timetables
- Activities for one-to-one tutoring
- Homework
- Module-specific teaching notes
Appendices:
Timetable and module activities for a small group
Glossary
Simple Speed Sounds Chart
Complex Speed Sounds Chart
Red Words
Summary of activity purposes
Phonics practice activities for teachers

About the Author

Ruth Miskin is one of the UK's leading authorities on teaching children to read. She has many years' experience as a head teacher, teacher trainer and consultant in phonics and literacy, working with primary and secondary schools throughout the UK.

Ruth has been an adviser to the government on many aspects of literacy teaching since 1997. Her work has been featured both by Newsnight on BBC2 and Dispatches on Channel 4. Ruth was awarded a CBE in 2019 for Services to Education.

Reviews

We have seen an enormous improvement in not only the reading ages of our students but also their enjoyment of and enthusiasm for reading. Many teachers have commented on the increased confidence these students display when reading aloud in class and contributing to group discussions.

Students are becoming equipped with the tools needed to be independent readers; gaps in their reading knowledge are being explicitly addressed; they get to practise reading texts that are absolutely accessible to them and they are visibly more confident as a result. It's like they are suddenly able to unlock a code and it's brilliant to see!