English an immensely rich language: • Rich in homophones: right, write, rite or wright? • Rich in regional accents: many children in southern England struggle to hear any difference between pours, pores, paws, pause and Poor’s, while in the US … Read More
Tracing makes it easy. Children who are dyspraxic or have poor fine motor skills find it easiest to learn handwriting by tracing. Our Bearing Away progamme includes Montessori-style textured letters for children who need a lot of extra help. Copying … Read More
Phonics Flashcards are a quick and easy way to teach the sounds taking just a couple of minutes once or twice a day. Our flashcards are free to download.
A cursor is a piece of card, about the size of a business card, with a square notch cut out of the top left corner. On the last sheet of blue flashcards, three cursors are marked out for you, but any piece of plain card will do the job.
Pre-emptive correction is all about making sure your pupils gets it right before they have a chance to get it wrong. Practice Makes Permanent. It is widely believed that if you get something wrong enough times, the penny will suddenly drop … Read More
Early intervention with Bear Necessities “Early intervention is the key. Just a little help in Reception can make all the difference to the child who isn’t ‘ready to learn.” Bear Necessities is the ideal synthetic phonics programme for very young … Read More
Here’s how Bear Necessities works Children are always ‘getting it right’—Skills are carefully built from the bottom-up, with vast amounts of over-learning. When reading becomes a ‘can-do’ activity, children become eager learners, and they start to connect with whole-class activities. … Read More
