Description
Bearing Away
ISBN 9781905174232
Bearing Away is a unique multi-sensory phonics programme for children with more complex learning difficulties. It is designed for pupils who are struggling to make a start in learning to read—pupils who cannot even remember single letter sounds.
It combines elements from the earliest stages of our reading and spelling programmes with our distinctive engraved letter tiles. Letter and sound recognition, correct letter formation, blending and segmenting are taught in tiny incremental steps with an extraordinary amount of structured overlearning. Constantly changing multi-sensory exercises ensure that it never gets boring. Regular in-built Mastery Tests ensure that pupils are always working at the right level and that newly-learned skills are not forgotten. It should be used for 10 minutes every school day.
When pupils have completed Bearing Away, they will be able to read and spell simple CVC words, and they will know the digraphs ‘sh’, ‘ee’ and ‘ar’. They will then be ready to start on our normal programmes, Bear Necessities and Apples and Pears.
The instructions for teachers are included in the workbook and printed up-side-down at the top of each page. You must sit opposite your pupil when you are using Bearing Away. You need to be able to see when they are confused or losing focus, so you can step in right away and show them what to do before they make an error and lose confidence.
Angela Cross –
We tried every reading curriculum out there even the popular All About Reading program geared toward dyslexic kids and nothing was working for our 7 year old daughter until we found Sound Foundations and Bearing Away. Our daughter couldn’t even recognize or remember the letters and there sounds but now we are about half way through this book and she is thriving! I have to say also that this book and this program make teaching reading a no brainer and it’s so quick and easy! It sounds too good to be true but we are proof that it’s seriously this simple and literally only takes a few minutes a day even for dyslexic learners. I am so impressed with her progress but also with the amazing confidence it gives the parent in teaching and of course the ease of use. If I (dyslexic parent) can use this program so quickly and easily to teach my dyslexic kiddo to read then anyone can do it! We LOVE Sound Foundation!