What Happens in Phonics Tuition?
A closer look at the activities we use to build confidence and early reading skills.
Our sessions use clear, structured activities and a wide range of engaging resources, carefully matched to each child’s current level.
To keep learning stress-free, we introduce new phonics concepts in small, manageable steps. Children practice each skill with gentle guidance and encouragement until it becomes second nature. Experiencing a steady stream of success makes reading feel achievable, naturally boosting their motivation, confidence, and self-esteem.
This page gives you a closer look at the types of activities we use, so you can see how we support your child’s reading development.
Building Core Reading Skills
Understanding the connections between sounds and letters is essential for reading. Practising blending and segmenting with real words and letters is the most effective way of improving phonemic awareness, reading and spelling.
Instead of just memorising lists, we encourage active learning methods such as swapping letters into common spelling patterns to practice blending sounds (as shown in the image below). Creating a ‘family of words’ in this way builds the strong pattern recognition and decoding skills your child needs to read fluently.
Feedback from each activity instantly reveals a child’s understanding, allowing us to adjust the level of support or challenge straight away. In the example above, we can swap letters in different positions or introduce new letter patterns as confidence grows.
Many children find it difficult to hear the individual sounds in words when they’re trying to spell. A simple way to support them is to sketch boxes or dots to show how many sounds a word contains.
We can then help them identify some of the letters that represent those sounds, if needed, and step back gradually as they get the hang of it.
Teach Your Monster to Read Games
A series of award-winning phonics and reading games. 