Phonological Awareness Series Disc 2: Syllabification

"A motivating learning tool."

"This CD-ROM provides activities to increase children's awareness of syllables in words and to practise separating and combining syllables. It has several strengths:

• easy to use
• instructions and support notes are easy to understand
• can be used by assistants and parents as well as teachers and therapists
• has high quality 'real voice' audio options: male voice, female voice, no voice
• activities have two levels and build in complexity
• a resource bank of pictures, worksheets and word lists is available to download and print."

"Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 children enjoyed the activities, especially the humorous cartoon at the end of each activity. The CD will be a useful supplement to phonological awareness work for children at Key Stage 1 and for any child with difficulties in phonological awareness. An adult is needed to interact with the child and facilitate learning, however with familiarity the child can work through some activities alone. The activities can be used with one child, paired children or a facilitated small group. Having reviewed this, I am interested in looking at the rest of the series; Disc 1: Listening and Rhyming, and forthcoming discs which will include segmentation and alliteration skills. In our mainstream schools service I would recommend this CD to SENCos, therapists and teachers as a motivating learning tool for a specific area of phonological awareness."