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Message: Hello! I saw this Tried & Tested Review on Teach Primary Magazine's website and thought you might like it - please find an excerpt below: Project X CODE If you want to read the full article, please visit: https://teachprimary.com/1/tried_and_tested/view/project-x-code Thanks!
Message: Hello! I saw this Tried & Tested Review on Teach Primary Magazine's website and thought you might like it - please find an excerpt below: Project X CODE Project X CODE describes itself as a ‘breakthrough for special needs’ and claims to be the first reading programme to embed a systematic synthetic phonics progression, specifically targeted at struggling readers from Y2-4 (aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 3-5) within a highly motivational 3D episodic adventure series. If you pride yourself as being someone with their finger on the pulse, this is the resource for you. It’s ideal for a trained teaching assistant to deliver, or if you are new to phonics teaching – or trained years ago and need a refresher – then the teacher handbook will help you to get your head around what phonics progression looks like and how you can teach and assess phonics in a balanced, well-paced and creative way. The programme is based on 56 carefully levelled books. It includes detailed, daily session notes that follow a clear progression designed to revisit and accelerate acquisition of phonic knowledge, application and comprehension skills through an action-packed story. The books are divided between different zones, and each zone is set in a different area of Micro World: a miniature theme park that requires visitors to walk through a shrinking machine to gain entry. However, Micro World is run by a malfunctioning computer called CODE who has a plan to shoot shrinking rays around the planet so as to reduce ‘over population’. Enter Team X, whom pupils have to assist by collecting CODE keys to shut down the malevolent computer. There are two texts in every book, one being 100% decodable and the second being 80% decodable. Text 1 contains target phonemes and tricky words designed to be practised before reading and Text 2 includes the same, but is longer with more varied vocabulary. The text is presented in a dyslexic-friendly font, so thumbs up all round. Each book contains ‘before’ and ‘after’ reading pages, which are linked to session notes. ‘Before’ reading includes a sound checker section, which introduces the grapheme-phoneme correspondences (GPCs) covered in each text. Then there is a sound spotter section for blending to encourage decoding. Project X CODE is fully in line with the Phonics Screening Check in England and adopts a no nonsense approach to nonsense pseudo-words in a meaningful context to help develop and test decoding skills. To progress from one zone to the next, children have to read CODE words, such as ‘keed’, ‘quon’, ‘kaip’, ‘dazz’, ‘chish’, ‘quigh’, ‘jov’ and ‘yix’. Good luck with that. Teaching non-words has been heavily attacked by many as being counter-productive and confusing, with the new screening test… If you want to read the full article, please visit: https://teachprimary.com/1/tried_and_tested/view/project-x-code Thanks!