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Hi this is my first time on this wonderful site so please bear with me!!!... I am studying my nvq level 3 stls...i am very fortunate at the moment because I am supporting two 4yr olds in reception with their phonics. One of them is not too bad but attention span is not great,as for the other one she is always away with the fairies and her concentration span is very poor!!! Any tips would be appreciated to get them both concentrating ( I take them off on their own somewhere quiet) as I do this voluntary and want to show the teacher what I can achieve with them to enable to get some paid hours eventually.many thanks.
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Hi, a very warm welcome in, so you've observed the duration of time that you're able to hold the children's attention span/initial length of concentration for, at which point you've probably seen that the activity itself and the resources you use are better placed to step in, take over their motivation & engagement for a while until you find your input is asked for or you join in to enrich the learning :)

Plan to know what interests the two children, if themes have any part in that eg. cars, dinosaurs, princesses, animals, enjoy using devices eg. handheld tablets and their apps and what physical items you can introduce to bring your phonics work to life and all of the children's senses. sensory play amazon.co.uk (sadly links to the outdated 2012 eyfs although otherwise has useful ideas)

Then look at any aims or 'targets the teacher is wanting for the children and which books, games, phonics programmes can be used to get you all there.

To help demonstrate your commitment to helping children learn, can you take a look through the class resource cupboards and staff library if possible for books that might help you support children with ideas for enunciation and pronunciation?

50 Fantastic ideas for teaching phonics by Alistair Bryce-Clegg on amazon.co.uk and the early literacy handbook by Dr Dominic Wyse and Christine Parker

On gov.uk you can download phonic programme evaulations, Teaching phonics - letters and sounds 2007 guidance

Activity ideas and what are synthetic phonics + phonics made easy from Oxfordowl.co.uk

Hth, best wishes
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