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I was hoping that someone out there has some knowledge of an all singing all dancing phonological awareness programme. Would SALLEY fit the brief? 
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Over the years I've spent quite a bit of time working on developing phonological awareness. I have always cobbled together a range of resources from 'Oxford Reading Tree', 'Phonological Awareness Procedure' as well as my own resources. It has met the need, but is rather time consuming when training other staff as each step needs to be explained. I was hoping that someone out there has some knowledge of an all singing all dancing phonological awareness programme. Would SALLEY fit the brief? ...
When children come to our nursery they often have poor language skills and find it impossible to sit down. How would you get started? 
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One of the major reasons that SALLEY includes work on attention skills is that we were often faced with the same scenario as you. We feel it is one of SALLEY’s strengths that nothing is assumed. We don’t for example assume that children have good language or attention skills before they start, therefore SALLEY goes slowly, step by step through the essential skills needed to sit, look and listen – all vital for attention and learning. We teach children what they have to do when they are told to ...
Children come to us on a mixed sessional basis – sometimes twice or three times a week. We only have a few children who come every morning. How could  
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You will notice that SALLEY has “recurrent themes” as one of its major plus points. The SALLEY programme runs over 100 days or sessions. However because we wanted to be certain that children had indeed acquired all the skills they needed, the programme has what you might call “revision” opportunities built in. We do not for example introduce a new concept, practice it and then move on. It is practised in lots of different ways and then revisited through a range of multisensory activities. Th...
I am confused by all the terminology around these days. Are phonics and phonological awareness the same? 
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No they are not and it is important to know exactly what you are getting. There are a lot of resources out there that tackle phonics – particularly in the wake of the Rose Review.   Phonological awareness is the understanding of different ways that spoken language can be divided into smaller components and manipulated.   Spoken language can be broken down in many different ways, including sentences into words and words into syllables (e. g., in the word simple, /a/ and /pple/), onse...
What exactly is multisensory teaching and learning? 
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The term multisensory is often banded about and is sometimes misunderstood. We believe that Salley offers a multisensory approach because it uses activities that appeal to the different senses including kinaesthetic and proprioceptive which are less frequently addressed in programmes that are preventative rather than interventionist. Typically children who are dyslexic or who have had difficulty learning to read are introduced to multisensory approaches. This usually occurs however after a prob...
What is pure phonics? Is this on the DVD? 
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Yes you can see a sample of a range of the activities used in the programme including the use of pure phonics. Pure phonics is very important to Salley and has since been advocated by the synthetic phonics approach. It basically means that the sound needs to retain as many of its properties as possibleeg “p” is a short voiceless sound as against “z” for example which is long and voiced. However it it critical that “p” is not pronounced as “puh”.   Children need to learn all the phonic sou...
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