Description
The last thing you want is for your child to fall behind with their reading when there’s so much going on around them over the Christmas period. So why not sneak in some extra reading practise with our Phonics Advent Calendar?
They will be having so much fun that they won’t even realise they’re learning to read! 🙂
You’ll receive:
- Large A3 Christmas Advent Calendar with a new festive word for your child to read each day behind the numbered doors. High quality colourful illustrations printed on strong card, with a silver ribbon hook to hang it up.
- Online Phonics Guide to support your child to read each word. Depending on their age and ability, you can choose from simplified strategies for beginner readers and challenge tasks for more advanced readers.
- Online Christmas Activity Booklets – different daily activities throughout the whole of advent relating to each new word of the day! Full of craft ideas, Literacy games to play and printable activities, such as colouring in pictures, Christmas card templates, gift tags, letters to santa and much more. The booklets will be emailed to you so you’ll be well prepared in advance for the all the fun things to do and make throughout December!
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Testimonials
“This was the first thing my children would ask about when they came into class each morning! They loved discovering a new word each day which gave them that extra bit of segmenting and blending practise. It comes with a huge supply of christmassy resources and game ideas to print off and use in the classroom too so it’s more than just an advent calendar.” – Mrs Hughes, Year 1 class teacher.
“It was a great way to introduce phonics to my 3 year old. It quickly became part of our bed time routine, and tied in nicely with Christmas stories we were reading. We loved the bright illustrations on the front too. Introducing one word a day was a nice and gentle way to approach phonics with a child beginning to recognise letters and sounds. Using the big clear letters, my little boy was able to identify sounds he recognised and attempted putting these together. By the end of the calendar, he was much more confident in putting sounds together to form words.” – Bekki Gooding, parent.
“My 4 year old daughter actually loved this more than her chocolate advent calendar, I never thought I’d be telling you that! She couldn’t wait to open it as soon as she got out of bed every morning, which surprised me because she never gets that excited about reading her school book!” – Danielle Thompson, parent.
“A big thank you from myself and all of the lovely children in my Reception class! Our star of the day did the honour of opening the advent calendar after register and asked for a little help from their friends if they got stuck with reading the word, so it was good practise for everyone! They loved using the Christmas letter mat too when they were busy writing in our elves workshop!!” – Miss O’Sullivan, teacher.
“This was fantastic. Our son is in Year 1 at school and finds reading difficult. He always tries really hard but is quite behind for his age, so this was just the thing we needed to give him extra help at home. Thank you so much.” – Rachel Groves, parent.
FAQs
1. What age is this Reading Advent Calendar suitable for? Any child learning to read from the age of 3 years to 6 years. All the letters and sounds cover the learning in phase 2 – 4 Phonics in the reading programmes currently used in schools.
2. My child is only just learning the letters of the alphabet, will this be right for them? Absolutely! The online phonics guide will give you all the strategies you need to support your child at this very early stage. From letter recognition activities to oral blending games to hear sounds in words – perfect for Nursery children or anyone needing extra help in Reception onwards.
2. My child is a confident reader, will this be right for them? Yes! The online phonics guide will give you plenty of extension activities for each daily word, such as rhyming games and writing sentences with that particular word in. We like to keep able readers challenged to make even more progress!
3. I’m a teacher, can I use this in my school with a whole class of children? Definitely! Hannah Angrave, the founder of Wriggly Readers, has used this in her Reception classroom and the children absolutely loved it! Choose the child of the day to open the door and have a go at reading the word using their phonics, or write it on the Interactive Whiteboard Board to sound it out together. It’s perfect as your festive word of the day and you’ll be able to use the online Christmas Activity Booklets to print off lots of fun resources to go with it for your writing table in the classroom!
