by Sian Halls | Sep 4, 2026
Every September brings the same fresh start: new classes, new reading groups, new children who need practice to become effortless rather than effortful. It’s the right moment to tell you that trugs itself has had a fresh start too, and this is the biggest one...
by Sian Halls | Aug 26, 2026
Teaching a child to read can be a daunting task, for parents, for tutors, and even for experienced teachers watching a struggling reader stall on the same three sounds for the third week running. That’s exactly the problem trugs (Teach Reading Using GameS) was...
by Sian Halls | Aug 21, 2026
trugs for dyslexia and SpLD For learners with dyslexia, structured programmes do the teaching. trugs supplies the one thing they can never have too much of: motivating, repeatable decoding practice. Part 2 looked at how trugs sits beside a school’s mainstream...
by Sian Halls | Aug 4, 2026
Putting trugs to work Placing a learner, choosing a pack, and keeping practice little, often and in step with the programme — a practical guide to using trugs well. The first three parts made the case: decoding is the engine, the volume of successful practice is what...
by Sian Halls | Jul 20, 2026
Using trugs in your phonics teaching Whichever synthetic phonics programme your school uses, trugs lines up beside it to be used as intervention or enrichment, matched to what a child can already decode. In Part 1 we looked at the staircase every reader climbs, from...
