The Power of Rhyme with Jacqueline Alexander

In this episode Toria talks to Jacqueline about nursery rhymes,
their history and their importance for early learning
today.  She also talks about the importance of phonological
awareness and how this is different to phonics. 

As a teacher and researcher, Jacqueline talks about how her
experience and research findings led her to develop and publish a
book of rhymes for active learning today.


Jacqueline is a mum, teacher, researcher, author and member of
the British Psychological Society.  Jacqueline’s social
initiative led to the publication of Wizzy’s Words, a book of
rhymes for sharing with infants from birth (and before) and
promoting holistic language and child development.


To get in touch with Jacqueline email her at jaccqquie@gmail.com
or visit www.wizzyswords.co.uk

A note from Jacqueline following the episode

Discerning phonological awareness from phonics is quite an
enigma. Years ago, onset and rime (as discussed) would have been
evident in classrooms and not just in the early years – with its
links to spelling patterns


The syllabic and intra-syllabic boundaries are key – once a child
has heard sounds, words, phrases, sentences i.e., language, they
can say it then read it then write it (although my focus in on
interactive sharing of rhymes via a book, I arranged for an
audiobook of the book to be produced which is narrated – with a
view to exposure to spoken word first)


Perhaps the biggest caveat to synthetic phonics is its deference
to phonemes and graphemes at the expense of onset and rime… 
the child exposed naturally to onset and rime from birth and
before school of course also has the vocabulary it derives from
and is ready for phonics - as we know therein lies the need for
research 


Please feel free to contact Jacqueline with any questions with
respect to this or other elements of their chat if it’s helpful.


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