Hansel and Gretel Play Set
I love making storybook play sets; I think that they add another dimension to the whole story telling process. You can either use the play sets while reading the story or as independent play. One of the favouri...
Celebrate World Book Day With These Cool Ideas
Celebrate World Book Day (Thursday, 1st March) with some of these fantastic activities, subscriptions and events to encourage your child to read and enjoy stories.
Sight Word Flip Book
Well the new school year is underway, and the homework is already starting to pile up. As well as all the normal things that YC and EC are sent home with, they will also have to work on their high frequency sig...
9 of The Best Picture Books for Kids This Summer
We've teamed up with the amazing Hutton Grove to create a list of the best picture books for kids this summer! Hutton Grove are publication company that create high quality picture books featuring imaginative s...
Rhyming Words Match Game
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An important part of learning to read is learning about rhyming words. Why? Well there are a number of reasons:
a) it helps them...
Digging For Sight Words
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YC's list of sight words grows weekly, and although she is very good at reading them off the key ring that is sent home from school, it is ...
Magic E Wands – An activity to help with reading
I remember watching those English look and read TV series on the BBC when I was at school (gosh is that showing my age); ones like Geordie Racer and Through the Dragon's Eye, I remember they always had sections...
Hidden Sight Words
Every day YC comes home with a key ring of sight words that she needs to practice. Once she has learnt them, new words are added to the ring. She is very good at memorising them, but simply pulling out the key ...
Scrabble Junior Busy Bag
I'm not sure why I decided to make our own Scrabble Junior busy bag but at the time I must have thought that it was a good idea. I mean, it was a good idea, but I didn't realise how hard it actually was to make...
Wow! Look at My Word Bank!
A few months ago we had gentleman come to visit EC from the Lyndhurst Dyslexia Centre. He spent half an hour with EC going over his spells and listening to him read, then at the end he gave Leonora and myself s...
