Phonics for Pupils with Special Educational Needs, 2nd edition is a systematic, synthetic phonics programme designed for learners with additional needs, providing a fun and accessible resource for pupils with SEN of any age. The evidence-led programme offers a refreshingly simple and accessible approach to the teaching of phonics, breaking it down into manageable core elements and providing a wealth of accompanying activities. Each book in the series gradually builds on pupils’ understanding of sounds and letters and provides scaffolded support for children to learn about the speech sounds of the English language and their matching letters. The companion Teacher’s Manual includes thorough guidance on how to deliver the activities.

Activity Book 2: Building Words, 2nd edition is the second book in the Phonics for Pupils with Special Educational Needs programme, a systematic, synthetic phonics programme designed for learners with additional needs. Book 2 reinforces pupils’ knowledge of the basic sounds explored in Book 1 and uses these to build longer words with more complex structures.

Fully revised, this 2nd edition focuses on words of three, four and five sounds. Words are grouped according to their pattern of vowels and consonants, with each set containing more than 35 engaging activities, centred on blending and segmenting words with adjacent consonants, whilst working on developing automaticity and fluency. New activities include letter sliders, sentence building, dictation and fluency practice. There

are also lesson planners to support formal and semi-formal delivery, handy word lists a movable alphabet, and posters infographics for both pupils and staff. For learners with a greater complexity of needs there is a suite of resourced strategies to enable access to the activities and programme materials.

This book is the second instalment of the basic code section of the Phonics for Pupils with SEN programme. Offering tried-and-tested material which can be printed for each use, this is an invaluable resource to simplify phonics teaching. It supports easy delivery for teachers, teaching assistants and tutors, and provides a fun, accessible way of teaching literacy for all children.