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PHONICS RESOURCES
Phonic Worksheets
(short article)
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THE BOXES FONT (PC
only)
A UNIQUE RESOURCE FOR
OVERCOMING SPELLING PROBLEMS BY BRIDGING THE AUDITORY AND THE VISUAL. For Spelling, cloze procedure and
other worksheet activities. GREAT FOR WORD WALLS.
    
 
Guide to
Using Boxes: Download a free information leaflet
"Thank
you for the cd rom. It installed like a dream! We will be
recommending it to SENCOs in Plymouth schools. Do you have any leaflets
which we can give to SENCOs? f you have please could we have a few. "
Maggie Parke - Plymouth Advisory Learning Support
Box letter shapes, as
illustrated above and used in the Crossbow BOX DICTATIONS and SIGHTWORD SPELLING
resources, help people with weak auditory - visual connections (common in
dyslexia) to map phonemes onto graphemes.
SEE EXAMPLES
BELOW
EXAMPLES: You may want to
prompt a specific word, as in a cloze passage:
Type the sentence: "The leaves
on the tree are green"
Highlight "tree" and
change font to "Boxes Longlegs"
(Example
A opposite) You may want
to encourage cursive writing in the boxes by using "boxes joined
up" (b)
You may want to show all
or some of the letters in the boxes
(c)
You may want to use the
script font without the boxes (D)
You may want to prompt
certain letters to practise specific spellings by using "boxes
colored" (E)
Or you may want any
combination of these
(F)
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THE
BOXES FONT IS
A SUITE OF FIVE FULLY-FEATURED TRU-TYPE FONTS
EACH
EXAMPLE BELOW SAYS "This
is the boxes font"
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In each case, it is simply a matter of highlighting
the word and changing the
font. Once installed on your hard drive, BOXES is there whenever you want it.
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