Heggarty and PLD's SSP program. Can the two programs be used together?
PLD offers a structured synthetic phonics program with some embedded phonemic awareness training in Term 1 Foundation;
- Blending three phonemes (to fast-track students into decoding) https://pld-literacy.org/product/learning-to-blend-three-phonemes/
- Segmentation (to fast-track students into spelling). https://pld-literacy.org/product/learning-to-segment-cvc-words/
Keep in mind that Heggarty of auditory and oral and quite fast-paced. For students who are struggling with phonemic awareness, PLD's programs above offer:
- Pictorial support (to support the oral instruction), e.g. ' Guess this picture?' or 'Sound out this word/picture'
- PLD's programs also provide instructions to support weaker students (e.g. continuous blending rather than just discontinuous blending and tips to reduce pausing between sounds and repetition.)
- Many schools feed back to the PLD office, that the Tier 2 and 3 students particularly benefit from the PLD phonemic awareness flipbooks.
Updated on: 01/12/2023
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