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Here are your FREE CodeBreakers resources- Week 2
We do hope that you enjoyed your week 1 FREE CodeBreakers resources. We have now included the link to Series 3 Series 4 There's also a reminder below of how to use Quizlet [video width="1366" height="768"...
Your FREE CodeBreakers resources are here – Week 1
During the difficult times we've decided to give our readers access to just some of CodeBreakers resources. CodeBreakers is a systematic, synthetic phonics programme, which is structured and cumulative. Workbooks which accompany the flashcards, are also available on...
CodeBreakers message to readers and FREE CodeBreakers resources coming soon
At the moment we are all experiencing difficult times. You may be a parent struggling with educating your child at home, you made be a teacher or TA required to provide work for your students and struggling to find appropriate resources. It's difficult as not all...
Living with Dyslexia – what can we learn?
Last year, Twinkle voted CodeBreakers one of the best blogs writing about dyslexia. This year we were invite to add to the Twinkle blog about living with dyslexia. What is it like to be Dyslexic? Twinkle asked the experts and explored common signs of dyslexia, the...
Would you like FREE access to 100s of online phonics games?
**NEW** CodeBreakers PLAY online games for school and home You can now access CodeBreakers PLAY via our website for single or multiple users. Bring fun and energy to your education setting or home learning. Would you like to know how you can access FREE games for...
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...
**NEW** CodeBreakers Online Games
Wow! You don't need me to tell you it's been an absolute scorcher in the UK. The shops have sold out of cold drinks and lollipops and we're all wondering how to entertain the kids in this heat! I have to say I've never been a fan of Pac-Man or arcade games. I'm...
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...
