The purpose of Learn to read - Crack the Reading Code is to teach what is important for reading: shape, writing direction and sound. These are the foundations of reading.
The content has been developed by experienced teachers.
Children acquires the essential knowledge that letters represents sounds, fit together and make words that have meaning.
- The sound of the letters before the names:
Children often learn the names of the letters instead of the sounds of the letters. This means that they are forced to concentrate on something that they cannot use when learning to read.
Learn to read uses exclusively letter sounds.
Children have no use for the letter names in the initial stages of reading.
- The most used words as word pictures.
Many of the most used words are not spelled as they sound. Therefore, it is a big help to recognize these as word pictures.
Children won't be forced to sound it out here, but instead just recognize the word like they recognize their own name or that a big yellow M means a well-known burger chain.
That is why these most used words are trained as word pictures in Crack the Reading Code.
- Uppercase letters for the intermediate learner.
Many children first learn the 'big letters.' Of course, these must also be learned, but it should happen only when the child already recognizes the 'small letters.'
It is easier to relate to one shape per sound than two.
When they have learned the lowercase letters, they can already recognize the letters in the books they read.
Switching between the 'lowercase' and 'uppercase' in 'Settings.'
- Target audience:
4 - 10 years (those who can't read or have a hard time doing so).