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Teaching phonics can be quite daunting, both for you and your little one, therefore we want to help you every step of the way to make reading both fun and educational.
Today, we will be covering sound buttons. While your child learns to read phonics, you’ll probably come across words that are written like this, with dots and dashes underneath the letters: As you can see, sound buttons are a handy way to see how many sounds there are in a word. They also show which are single-letter sounds, and which are digraphs or trigraphs. This helps your child to read the word. Also, if they add their own sound buttons to words, it will really help your child to identify all the different sounds and get used to the way the word looks written down. This will help their spelling, as well as their reading! Phonics activities Once you join your child will receive a bundle of books and activities delivered to your door each month. Just let us know the book band level your child uses at school to start or we can sensibly place your child based on their age, school stage and the time in the school year (see our handy chart). We will work with you and tweak their reading level until it is just right. Targeted practice
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Our aim is to make reading levels and targets totally transparent, so parents always know how their child is doing. We want to take the pressure off teachers by giving families access to the very latest and most stimulating phonics materials – at just the right reading level – at home. When your child is learning each set of sounds it is really important they have access to books that closely match their phonics knowledge. There is a big difference between phonics books and popular storybooks. Sharing stories is an important part of developing a love of reading, however, when children are learning to read they need access to books that match their phonics knowledge. My 6 year old can sometimes be harder to encourage, but the length and complexity of the worksheets are perfect for her attention span and once she completes one she is keen to work on more. By far the best children’s subscription we’ve had (and we’ve done a lot of craft and baking ones previously).
Your child’s teacher might ask your child to read words that have sound buttons, or to write sound buttons under a word. So how does it work? These are called ‘sound buttons’, and they help your child to split up a word into its separate sounds, and then blend all those sounds together to read the word. We have been subscribing to That Bear Can Read since Christmas. These beautiful boxes of literary joy arrive every month to the delight of my 2 children (ages 6 and 3). There is the perfect balance of educational material and gifting.
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The Bear Can Read was founded to make learning to read at home easier for children and their families. We do this by assembling the best phonics material – books at the right level, focussed worksheets and expert advice, all delivered with a fine balance of purpose and fun. Independent readers are independent thinkers, and once your child has mastered the skills of reading, they will be able to access ideas, stories and information from right across time and all around the world. They’ll be able to read and understand information in every area of the curriculum and learn about any subject that interests them. Independent readers find far fewer barriers to future success, whatever direction they take in life. For our youngest club members aged 2-3 (Cub) and 3-4 (Teddy) we focus on the skills they need to be developing at home to keep pace with early learning goals. Tailored progress An accurate reading is also really important for your child’s future learning at school. Throughout primary and secondary school – and right through further education and beyond – it’s so much harder to learn effectively without good reading skills. Learning their phonics will help your child to read accurately and focus on the meaning – which will enable them to learn so much more effectively in every part of the curriculum!
We curate and commission the latest (and greatest) phonics materials for each age and stage. We shadow schools, so your child’s reading journey is a seamless transition between home and school. The right reading level Being the very earliest stage box it is mainly about getting children interested in reading rather than starting to actually read (yet). It’s about laying the foundations for early reading. The quality of the materials is really good and the craft ideas are really good. What’s in the teddy box (3-4 years) But we’d go further than that and say that learning to read phonics can offer your child five big benefits that will stay with them for life! 1. Read with speed If you look at ‘squirrel’ above, you’ll see that there is a dot or a dash under each sound in the word. The letter ‘s’ has a dot because it’s just one letter making one sound. The letters ‘i’, ‘e’ and ‘l’ have one dot each too, for the same reason. But ‘qu’ and ‘rr’ get a dash because those are both digraphs – two letters that make one sound together. Camilla Macoun is a mother of three and Founder of The Bear Can Read, a subscription service for families with children aged 2-7.
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The Bear Can Read brings fun and focus to children’s reading – 10 to 15 minutes every day makes all the difference. As parents, we know how hard it can be to learn to read. So we set out to create simple, targeted worksheets and activities with phonics experts. We also ensure that the books are not only the newest and most engaging on the market but they specifically focus on the letters and sounds that the child is learning that month. Camilla has 16 years’ experience with educational publishing, with in particular expertise in children’s reading and phonics. During her career Camilla has worked at Ladybird, Penguin Random House, Pearson and Oxford University Press. Camilla commissioned then managed Pearson’s best-selling reading programme, Bug Club. As a Senior Publisher at Oxford University Press Camilla was instrumental in developing Oxford Reading Buddy, a ground-breaking virtual reading service for primary schools.
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