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Teachers and childcare providers turn playtime with children in your care into a jungle reading adventure. You can teach the sounds and shapes of letters without the children even realising it!

This program takes the form of an enchanting journey adventure, in which the rules of reading (phonics) are embedded in a story. The program utilises a sounds-based (phonics), approach to learning to read. It consists of stories in which different animals represent a letter of the alphabet, teaching children the 'building blocks' of reading and spelling through entertaining and engaging adventure stories. Letters come alive in the form of birds and animals, whereby birds represent vowels and animals play consonants' role. You can help your baby learn the critical fundamentals for future reading, spelling and writing.

Letters, otherwise rather bland and uninspiring, come alive by taking on animals and birds' personalities.

 

1. Teachers and childcare managers of toddlers, turn playtime with these children in your care into a jungle reading adventure. You can teach the sounds and shapes of letters without the children even realising it!

The course is a vehicle for children to learn to read and spell with confidence in an engaging context. This program takes the form of an enchanting journey adventure, in which the rules of reading and spelling are embedded in a story. The program utilises a sounds-based (phonics), approach to learning to read.

Letters come alive in the form of birds and animals, whereby birds represent vowels and animals play consonants' role. You can help your toddler learn the critical fundamentals for reading, spelling and writing.

Letters, otherwise rather bland and uninspiring, come alive by taking on animals and birds' personalities. It consists of stories in which different animals represent a letter of the alphabet, teaching children the 'building blocks' of reading and spelling through entertaining and engaging adventure stories.

Areas covered –

1. Toddlers will learn to read the consonants, short, long vowel sounds and blended sounds.

It utilises a series of images to teach this linguistic skill. For instance, Doctor Do Read and the animals play games, in which the rules of the games represent rules for reading and spelling long vowel sounds.

2. Toddlers learn how to say and spell blended sounds such as oi, er, ch, or, ar, oo, th, ng, ow and sh. Again, images convey this lesson. During a fishing holiday, the birds and animals hear and identify familiar sounds. Doctor Do Read carves out coconut shells to make blended sounds, and animals are paired off as they blow into the coconut shells to mimic these blended sounds.

The program is broken into distinct learning stages to teach toddlers reading and spelling techniques progressively. Using a creative and entertaining approach.

 

1. Teachers of children aged 4-12

Techniques for teaching students to learn to spell with accuracy and confidence.

This course takes the form of an enchanting adventure, in which the rules of spelling are embedded in unforgettable stories. The program utilises a sounds-based (phonics), approach to spell with confidence. You will be astonished at some of these spelling ‘patterns’.

1. Students will learn how to say and spell blended sounds such as oi, er, ch, or, ar, oo, th, ng, ow and sh.
2. Key reading and spelling secrets –
   • • Secret 1: The silent letters.  
     • Secret 2: Identification of sounds that are formed through an unusual combination of letters
3. The most popular 190 words used in books.

For children 8-12 years of age

4. Methods for spelling more advanced blended sounds. It explores the different ways in which blended sounds may be written.

For example:

Sound	Written
air	are:
ow	ou:
oo	ue ew u:
sh	ti si ci ssi:

 

5.  Methods for spelling long words and foreign-based words. It delves into the concept of 'the family of sounds.'

Many children panic when they see long or foreign words and letter combinations, such as simultaneous. The Doctor Do Read story tackles these problems by teaching common families of letters, such as ssion and ible. These complex sounds are taught with innovative combinations of animals and birds grouped into families. Each family of sounds represents a challenging cluster of letters commonly found in difficult-to-spell words.

Examples of the families of letters taught include:

ous, ......ious, ......eous, ......tial, ......cial, ......tion, ......ssion, ......sion, ......ciate, ......tiate, ......ify, ......ible,

  able, ......ence, ...... ance, ......ent, ......ant, ......ture, ......ique, ......ch, ......eau, ...... eaux, ......zz, ...... ain, ......ate, ......ary, ......tory,

Activities designed to engage young readers and extensive spelling lists.