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Coming soon **NEW** CodeBreakers PLAY. Online games subscriptions for school and home
We're extremely pleased to announce we will be launching our **NEW** CodeBreakers PLAY online games for school and home in December 2021. You can access access CodeBreakers PLAY via our website for single or multiple users. Bring fun and energy to your education...
How playing video games may be related to cognitive benefits and improved reading for children with dyslexia – Shhh don’t tell the children!
How playing video games may be related to cognitive benefits and improved reading for children with dyslexia – Shhh don’t tell the children! By Hannah Lewis November 2021 Here at CodeBreakers, I recently developed a whole series of online games to help develop...
Is wearing yellow simply enough for Mental Health Awareness Day?
It's 5am on a Sunday morning and I'm wide awake reflecting on the working week, planning next week and having a whole load of other random facts running through my mind. The traits of many a busy person and no doubt, many a woman of a certain age too! One particular...
October 2021- Dyslexia Awareness Month
It's October, that means it's Dyslexia Awareness Month and in the UK the British Dyslexia Association helps to raise understanding with Dyslexia Awareness Week, 4-10 October 2021. This year, they ask us to consider dyslexia as being 'invisible'. Our friends at...
How do I teach a child to read ‘live or wind’?
If you're reading this article, I'm guessing you know the different ways to say/read the words 'wind or live' and of course, until we are reading in context it can be read as either. Throughout the week, I work with a mix of students, from children in home education,...
I just made brownies!
It was fantastic this week to log into a lesson with one of my adult learners to be told, "I just made brownies!" My student was so thrilled to have read and followed a recipe for the first time and it's fabulous to see progress like this, where individuals suddenly...
GCSE Success!
It's been a testing 18 months for all of our students trying to study during Covid, there have been long periods where students have had to access learning online. Despite this, it's wonderful to hear of GCSE successes. It's always so wonderful to learn of my own...
SALE NOW ON – OVER 50% OFF – *All our CodeBreakers Home Edition workbooks
To celebrate 5yrs of CodeBreakers and our new website, giving instant access to workbooks, we've massively reduced CodeBreakers Home Edition workbooks - Our sale is now on with over 50% OFF. We appreciate that there are a number of SEN families looking to gain...
How are parents and children managing during home learning and is there a greater impact on children with additional learning needs?
How are parents managing during home learning and is there a greater impact on children with additional learning needs? It's no surprise that many parents are have a mixed response to home learning at present. Some parents are embracing the opportunity to have a...
What is good intervention, why does phonics not work?
Quite often I get asked, why is Codebreakers more than just phonics? What is the difference between phonics and a systematic synthetic phonics programme? Too often I hear, phonics doesn't work. Phonics interventions and teaching phonics usually relates to the 44...
Children Teach Themselves to Read
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The unschoolers' account of how children learn to read
