This manual provides guidance on:

• effective literacy teaching
• learning to read and supporting pupils with literacy difficulties
• classroom interventions
• how to teach phonemic awareness

A range of task cards are also provided for teachers to use to improve oral blending, alliteration, the voice sounds, alphabet knowledge, rhythm and rhyme, sound discrimination and oral blending and segmenting.

This manual has a range of support strategies and ideas, making it ideal for both Support for Learning teachers and class teachers seeking to differentiate or create lessons in supporting pupil literacy development.