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6. Provide fun consolidation and revision

Your child will learn to recognise whole words by their shape and pattern. Matching games on each page and games at the back of each book offer further tools for revision and assessment.

The use of Word Cards is an important feature of this scheme; they offer many opportunities to consolidate and revise.

The following games can be played with the Word Cards:

a. Matching — the child matches a Word Card to the corresponding word in a sentence, in the green box at the end of each text page or in the games at the back of each book.

b. Selecting — the child selects the word from a number of Word Cards on a verbal or signed cue.

c. Naming — you hold the Word Card up for the child to see and they sign or say the word in question.

d. Hide and Seek — hide the Word Card in the book, under their pencil case, etc., and ask the child to seek and say the word.

e. Posting — post the words using a letterbox (either home made or from another game) and have your child say and post the Word Card.

f. Fishing — there are many such games on the market, some with big wooden fish. Using ‘Blutac’ stick the Word Cards onto the fish and have your child fish for the Word Card and tell you what it says. Alternatively you can easily make your own fishing game by putting a paper clip on the Word Cards and using a home-made fishing rod with a magnet on the end to fish the word from either a box or bowl or whatever is to hand. (Caution — this is not safe for younger children.)