Daily Reading and Spelling Drills

Building literacy is a process that requires daily commitment, particularly for students living with learning difficulties.

In this post, you’ll discover how to use reading and spelling drills to strengthen phoneme-grapheme correspondences, build fluency, and foster confidence.

Morphology & Struggling Readers

Unlocking Literacy Through Morphology English is a morphophonemic language, meaning it combines sound (phonics) with meaning (morphology). While phonics is vitally important as the foundation of literacy instruction, it’s only half the story. Introducing the idea that words have meaningful parts (morphemes) early on ensures students develop a balanced understanding of our language system. By […]

LSK – Literacy Games

Literacy Games: Making Learning Fun and Engaging Incorporating games into literacy instruction can transform the learning experience, making it engaging and enjoyable for students. Games provide a hands-on way to reinforce skills, build fluency, and foster confidence. The Literacy Support Kit (LSK) includes carefully designed games like Chunky Pig and a literacy-focused version of Snakes […]

A Guide To Teaching Handwriting

How to Use the Literacy Support Kit (LSK) Handrwiting Resources Why Handwriting Is Important Handwriting mastery is crucial for developing kids’ confidence and kinaesthetic memory, freeing up working memory, and enabling students to focus better on spelling. Handwriting is public, and it can become a source of humiliation for kids who struggle with it. Often, […]

Teaching The Alphabet – Guide

How to Use the Literacy Support Kit (LSK) Alphabet Resources Introducing the alphabet early while explicitly teaching phonemes one by one has multiple purposes and is grounded in research about how children learn to read and write. Early Familiarity with Symbols Teaching the alphabet gives kids an immediate sense of the symbols they will encounter […]

Free Webinar – Word Cracking Demonstration

Unlock Literacy Success: Replay of the Word Cracker Webinar on new features and Literacy Intervention. We are thrilled to offer you the opportunity to watch the replay of our recent webinar, where we delved into the extensive features and functionalities of Word Cracker, an essential tool for enhancing literacy through morphological intervention. Hosted by Bill […]

-ic Endings Add ‘k’ Rule

This is a tricky spelling rule because you need to be familiar with a number of rules for it to make sense. When words end with -ic, and we add a vowel suffix that begins with e, i or y, we need to add a k. e.g. panic+ing becomes panicking. Preceding this, we recommend kids […]

St Peter’s Woodlands And Word Cracking

Why 96% of St Peters Woodlands year-one students perform at, or above, literacy benchmarks! Watch the Video and read on to discover exactly how St Peter’s Woodlands Grammar School transformed their literacy education by embedding the science of reading across the whole school, using explicit direct instruction principles and Word Cracker morphology resources and tools. […]

Sample Lesson -Suffix-s

The student(s) are introduced to the consonant suffix: Student(s) are also introduced to the terms: NOUN: A word for a person, place or thing. VERB: An action, doing or being word. SUFFIX: A letter or a group of letters added to the end of a base word, it changes the meaning slightly. For Playberry© students, this […]

Teaching morphology in the classroom

Word Cracker resources are built to be used to teach morphology no matter which scope and sequence a school use. However, the Word cracker includes a suggested progression and sequence for teaching morphology in the classroom. Our member’s section has detailed lesson suggestions that provide everything you need to explicitly teach important aspects of morphology […]