Synthetic Phonics teaches students the 44 basic units of sound, phonemes, before exposing them to full texts (part-to-whole learning). A traditional synthetic phonics approach would thus teach students individual phonemes, such as /s/, /a/, /t/, before introducing them to whole words. Students learn to blend these individual phonemes together to create, or synthesise, a word, e.g. 'sat'.

Analytic Phonics gives students whole words and teaches them to break the words into parts to analyse their patterns (whole-to-part). A traditional analytic phonics approach would thus teach students the word 'sing', which can be broken down into the consonant /s/ and the sound /ing/. By association, students are then taught to pronounce the words: 'wing', 'bring', 'thing' etc., so that they learn strings of rhyming words at a time.

By combining these two teaching methods, we believe our students will learn the accurate pronunciation and spelling of English words more efficiently and more effectively. Teaching a dual strategy for learning phonics, we more strongly equip our students to tackle the English language. This results in our students being able to read words that they know with fluency, and spell and pronounce words that they may not yet know with accuracy.