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Podcast: The Voice of Early Childhood
Episode: How do children learn to read and what's wrong with letters in a sand tray?
Description: Stephanie Hammond and Angelica Celinska critically discuss early literacy provision and the teaching of phonics, really unpicking how children learn to read. They discuss practitioner skills and confidence in challenging 'tick list practices', child-led vs adult-led learning, activities set up for adult purposes in terms of testing for specific outcomes and observations, rather than for the value of the learning in the moment for the children. As well as rich language environments, expectations of phonics schemes, reductionist phonics set ups and the 'catch up' narrative. Episode breakdown: 00:30 - DfE Literacy Specialist 03:00 - Le...