Snappy Lessons

Snappy Lesson® plans and resources are a streamlined method of teaching used in Sound Discovery® which is unique to this synthetic phonics programme.  It is a discrete daily session of quality first, fast-paced, lively teaching which carries on throughout Primary classes and is also used as a tool for intervention at any age. 

The key features of Snappy Lesson® are:

  • whole class or small group teaching
  • reinforcement and repetition are built in
  • sessions are frequent, aiming for fluency and mastery of learning
  • active recall is encouraged
  • Direct Instruction from the teacher (I do, we do together, you do)
  • teaching is
      • Oral and interactive
      • Lively (moving at a good pace)
      • Multi-sensory (integrating seeing, hearing and doing)

Snappy Lesson® is a lesson of two halves:

  • the reading half
  • the writing/spelling half through dictation

Snappy Lesson® operates at three levels of phonic teaching:

  • sound level
  • word level
  • sentence level