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

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

The first three parts made the case: decoding is the engine, the volume of successful practice is what builds it, and trugs supplies that practice alongside the programme doing the teaching. This part is about the doing. How do you find a learner’s starting point, how much practice is enough, and what changes between a classroom, a one-to-one session and the home?

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

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

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 

Learning to read is the most important thing a child does in their early years at school and for many, it doesn’t happen smoothly. This series is about how reading is taught now, why some readers need much more practice than others to get there, and where trugs fits into the picture.

The Power of Play: How Trugs Transforms Phonics Learning

The Power of Play: How Trugs Transforms Phonics Learning

At the core of every child’s reading journey is the need for engaging, effective learning tools—and that’s where Trugs comes in. Trugs (Teach Reading Using Games) harnesses the power of play to transform phonics learning for children of all ages, making the learning...