Part of the Lessons in Teaching series, this book provides exemplar lessons in phonics and uses them as a starting point for learning, exploring the theory behind them, what makes them good, and how they can be adapted to suit different year groups and different schools.

David Waugh is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the the School of Education, University of Durham where he is also the subject leader for primary English. 

Introduction
Why phonics?
Phonics in context
Reception: Developing phonemic awareness
Reception: Beginning to read and write using CVC words
Year 1: Teaching grapheme-phoneme correspondences
Year 1: Long vowel digraphs
Year 1: Decoding and encoding text
Years 1 and 2: Morphemes - prefixes, suffixes and root words
Year 2: Homophones and contractions
Year 2: Phonics into spelling
Teaching tricky or common exception words
Moving on