Reading that sticks. A four-part series, Part 2 of 4 

Reading that sticks. A four-part series, Part 2 of 4 

by | 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...
Reading that sticks. A four-part series, Part 1 of 4 

Reading that sticks. A four-part series, Part 1 of 4 

by | Jul 13, 2026

Why trugs? Phonics, practice and the readers who need more  How reading is taught today, why some children need far more practice than others, and why a game turns out to be the right tool for the job.  Learning to read is the most important thing a child does in...