Review: Read Write Phonics app (Android)
Review of the Read Write Phonics app – created specifically for children learning to read using phonics (as is used in most UK schools).
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The start of a magical journey into the world of books
I am so happy that RoRo has made the important jump into enthusiastic independent reading.
My Phonics Kit from Oxford University Press
My Phonics Kit is a pack from Oxford University Press for parents to help their children with phonics and which ties into the new Year 1 Phonics Test (see last week’s Sunday Reading post for my concerns about the test). My Phonics Kit contains three workbooks (Kipper’s Phonics Workbook, Chip’s Phonics …
The Year 1 Phonics Screening Check
The Year 1 phonics screening check will see children reading 40 words to their teacher to test their grasp on phonics.
Book Week round-up: Day 2: Learning to read
I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s posts and found them interesting and informative. We started with my experiences of learning to read and how we’ve been helping Rosemary with her reading in The cat sat on the mat this morning. A bit later, we had a teacher’s tips on Helping your …
Teaching teenagers and adults to read: the magic finger
This is a Book Week guest post by Jenny Goddard. Jenny taught her first person to read when she was nine and has helped children, teenagers and adults start their journey into the reading ever since, including me around 34 years ago. (Oh and she’s also my mum.) Jenny has …
Learning to read: get them talking first
This is a Book Week guest post by Rachel McClary from rightfromthestart. Rachel is an early years consultant and has some great advice for parents of babies and pre-schoolers on what we can do to prepare them so they will take to reading happily and easily. When our children first …
Kids loving reading
This is a Book Week guest post by Linda Jones of Freelancewritingtips.com. Linda is currently writing a book about helping primary school children to love reading. Reading can help our children fly, without leaving their room, swim without getting wet and sample a giant peach without being told not to …
Helping your child learn to read
This is a Book Week guest post from Suzanne at Ghostwritermummy. Suzanne is a teacher and has some excellent tips on helping children learn to read. Children are never too young to enjoy the gift of reading. Whether it is listening to a story or reading it for themselves, books …
The cat sat on the mat
I don’t really remember learning to read. It seems to me as though I always knew how to read. I could read already when I started school and got annoyed about having to say the sounds of letters instead of the names while everyone else was learning. Apparently, though, my …
