Visual and physical chunking

by | May 13, 2019 | Dyslexia, literacy, Reading, strategies

Knowing your syllables is a great strategy to develop reading confidence. In a really wonderful parent/child workshop this weekend we worked out empowering strategies to boost our young reader’s confidence. Confidence is everything to young readers. But you need...

Believe

by | Mar 24, 2019 | Dyslexia, joy of learning, self esteem, strategies

Believing in one's self is the key to opening all the doors In our workshops, we love to chunk up words, and pebbles are a fantastic sensory and visual object to root your memories within. We have learnt that every syllable has a vowel in it – that can really...

Looking for clues with the Bald Eagle

by | Mar 19, 2019 | Reading, strategies

Did you know the Bald Eagle’s eye-sight is four times sharper than a human’s? So, soar above it all with your Eagle-eyes scanning for clues! Use the Eagle’s super-power to help your child develop their clue-searching skills. Look for clues within: the...

My inspiration

by | Jan 22, 2019 | joy of learning, literacy, Reading, strategies

#inspiration Meet Finn. Finn is the inspiration behind the Aplhabeasts. He found reading very difficult when he was six and seven. We had to find multi-sensory and kinaesthetic approaches to teach him to read all of the tricky sight words. We used sensory materials to...