The Phonics Folders video demonstration here; https://youtube.com/shorts/9t1PObQE4lg?si=u_Fgen-lLjObXDvL The Phonics Folders Programme comprises of seven levels each containing eleven folders. Each folder generates forty eight words. The Phonics Folders is a learning tool which will take the student on a journey from very simple CVC words to complex words using multiple blends. Each phonic folder can generate forty eight different and related words. Some are true words and others are pseudo words which are produced by unexpected combinations of phonemes, digraphs, trigraphs and blends. **Through using the Phonic Folders a student learns to recognise not just single words but word structure using kinaesthetic involvement and rhyme.**They also realise that it is possible to create the same sounds with different letter combinations. Through using the folders students become more confident when moving on to decode unfamiliar vocabulary. Phonic folders are easy and economical to produce, portable and kinaesthetic, this makes them an ideal take home activity which can be used anywhere, even while travelling. It is the phonic equivalent of the word box. Students respond well to the kineasthetic / interactive form. The fact that they also generate rhyming words, with an almost poetic quality, helps the student to stay on track and develop an understanding of sounds not in isolation but in a gestalt way. The folders also generate comic and querky pseudo words and this adds to the fun which in turn helps to consolidate the student’s learning. An added benefit to the creation of pseudo words is that they inhibit mere sight reading. Pseudo words are not something new or to be afraid of, Lewis Carroll’s ‘Jabberwocky ‘contains numerous made up words which he termed portmanteaus, two of which have moved into common usage and have become ‘real’ words ‘chortled’ and ‘galumphing’. As well as being used as part of an early reading programme, Phonic Folders can be used for reading intervention or reading recovery. . Les and Joyce Johnson 2017 What am you buying? a 106 page book Folders containing printable worksheets and resource. These are used to create student ‘Phonic-folders’. Individual marking scheme Class marking schemes Certificates Pre-folder work; colouring books and handwriting activities - with letter forms to trace Extension work and activities