I’m Georgina, the author of CodeBreakers®. I understand some children don’t respond to reading and spelling interventions. Many schools experience collating resources from different intervention programmes and this takes time. From our pilot study in schools, we know that planning and staffing of interventions can be challenging. Measuring progress is also a requirement for any intervention.

CodeBreakers® is a systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) programme which uses multi-sensory techniques, it is cumulative and structured and mapped to Years 1-6 of the National Curriculum’s common exception words.

In 2021, the UK government announced the Early Reading Framework which advocates the use of a systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) approach.

CodeBreakers® was written with an aim of providing activities for dyslexia which are fun and a dyslexia specific intervention within school, which can be delivered by TAs, who are often at the forefront, supporting students of all ages, with learning difficulties. Baseline tests are included, which can not only identify specific gaps in a student’s knowledge but can also measure progress, alongside populating IEPs.  We aim to make efficient use of staff time by offering prepared lesson plans to further ensure teaching time is maximised. The clearly mapped pathway for student progression, ensures those overseeing intervention, understand how a student will progress through the programme.

Students don’t need a Dyslexia diagnosis to use CodeBreakers®. In fact, we recommend it is used as an early intervention programme.

CodeBreakers® has been written by me, a qualified dyslexia specialist, with years of teaching experience. I consider it is one of the best dyslexia programmes, as it is based on best practice gathered over the years.

CodeBreakers® is designed to enable TA/LSA to deliver this intervention in your setting. Training is available if required.  The bite-sized activities allow sessions to be broken into small chunks of learning each day, working at the student’s own pace. The games provided, also make learning fun! Many programmes rarely give opportunity for over learning and it’s this which makes learning ‘stick’, along with multi-sensory techniques.

The step-by-step programme removes all the stress of looking for resources. All you need to do is print your workbook and deliver your sessions at a time suitable to the student’s timetable. Pause when you want to take a break and start again at any time.

A licence to purchase workbooks is available.

Baseline tests are available to establish a learner’s start point and informally measure progress (not standardised).

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Find out more about the schools using CodeBreakers and their thoughts on the programme HERE