Debbie: Please note that any training, suggestions and guidance I give for the No Nonsense Phonics programme’s resources via its routine phonics ‘teaching and learning cycle’ applies equally to the rationale and resources of the Phonics International programme. If teachers, tutors and home-educating parents and carers spend time reading, watching, listening to the various pdfs, PowerPoints and videos, they will not require any expensive or ‘to buy’ training. Further, I have designed all the resources in Phonics International and No Nonsense Phonics with ALL stakeholders in mind. Clear guidance for the adult (for use in schools and in homes) is provided throughout both bodies of work. The No Nonsense Phonics programme (for infants and primary) and its resources are directly developed from the original (and now FREE) Phonics International programme (PI is suitable for all ages, flexibly, as required).
The Starting Point for all educators: Our FREE overview Alphabetic Code Charts are renowned and used in many contexts and countries. There is a short, embedded video describing their various designs and uses.
Click on this link below to a pdf of the beginning of the No Nonsense Phonics Skills Teacher Book 2 as this provides the research rationale and programme-specific rationale for No Nonsense Phonics (and Phonics International):
https://phonicsintervention.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/No-Nonsense-Book-2-Training.pdf
Note that the actual NNPS Pupil Books are provided within the parallel Teacher Books with additional post-it notes for information, teaching tips and training for good use of the NNPS Pupil Books. Below is an example of Teacher Book 2 provided as an ebook to ensure transparent information as to what people are ‘buying’ when they invest in our No Nonsense Phonics programme. The Teacher Books are incredibly easy and pleasant to use prior to using the parallel NNPS Pupil Books:
https://online.fliphtml5.com/kpind/dwru/?1635505958565#p=1
This page at our https://phonicsintervention.org (main website for No Nonsense Phonics) provides full information and free training via text, PowerPoints (one with my voice over) and videos . We added an embedded video entitled, ‘No Nonsense Phonics – Management, Organisation and Practical Suggestions by Debbie Hepplewhite‘ near the bottom of the page – please don’t miss watching this one!
This page provides a convenient list of all the ‘hard copy’ range of resources, plus our Phonics Reading Books eBookshelf . All these hard copy resources and Phonics Reading Books can serve both the No Nonsense Phonics programme and Units 1 to 6 (of 12 Units) of the Phonics International programme. These are published by our company, Phonics International Ltd.
This link provides free ebook examples from Debbie’s ‘Phonics and vocabulary books’ reading book series which is complementary, or supplementary, to both the No Nonsense Phonics and the Phonics International programmes. The original 44 books are available via an ebookshelf and as hard copies.
This link provides free ebooks for the ‘Optional NNPS Pupil Books 2+ and 5+’ which Debbie wrote in response to literacy advisor Carl Pattison’s request to introduce some of the letter/s-sound correspondences earlier to be more in line with some other publishers’ decodable reading book schemes. As Debbie advocates schools build up a rich stock of literature (not just one publisher’s offer), this fits in with her rationale to use any literature ‘sensibly’ with adult support ‘as required’.
Our range of Phonics International Ltd’s FREE resources may be second to none. These are accessible via our No Nonsense Phonics main site:
And check out our FREE CPD RESOURCES which are applicable to both the No Nonsense Phonics programme and Phonics International (and include resources that could be considered ‘generic’ and useful to any educator including parents).
Be sure to explore the ‘Free Resources’ page at our https://phonicsintervention.org site which has some ‘overlap’ with the FREE CPD RESOURCES at the Phonics International website, but also some additional resources such as printable sounds mats (Four Teaching and Learning Tabletop ‘Sounds Mats‘) and printable ‘Frieze Miniatures‘ of the alphabetic code featured in both the No Nonsense Phonics Pupil Books and the Phonics International programme. This page also includes additional resources specific to the No Nonsense Phonics programme.
We also provide fantastic FREE early years, pre-school/nursery resources: Teeny Reading Seeds and two Phonics and Talk Time books. (More information will be forthcoming as Early Years Reading Leader, Emily Kenny, trials these and provides her findings.)
HERE is a link to the Phonics and Talk Time Flash Cards and Frieze (sold as a ‘Phonics and Talk Time Frieze Set’) that align with the two ‘Phonics and Talk Time’ books. These introduce the rationale of capital and lower case letter shapes as code for the ‘same’ sounds, the role of capital letters for the beginning of people’s names and the beginning of sentences, and letter formation. We provide them via an ebook simply to show what these resources consist of which are available to buy as A4 hard copies.
Additionally, we provide FREE training via videos and FREE Alphabet and Handwriting Resources including for teaching fully joined handwriting.
Not all phonics programmes’ websites give much indication of the nature of their resources and rationale. In these times of the internet, I don’t think that’s acceptable. For some programmes, you have to sign up and submit an application just to learn any substantial information about the programme and any associated training. We at Phonics International Ltd try hard to be as informative and transparent as we can be. Any ‘signing up’ via a very simple online form will provide people with immediate access to our FULL, FREE Phonics International programme’s teaching and learning resources – via the PI PROGRAMME INDEX page!
