Reading gives you wings!
Let's Fly uses a synthetic phonics, morphological, and sight word approach to reading because, for some little learners, phonics alone isn’t enough. Words are introduced systematically in small, manageable batches. These words are then woven into silly sentences, gorgeous poems and fun games. Let’s Fly makes learning to read enjoyable while building fluency and confidence. Enabling little brains the space to enjoy their stories!
Phonological Awareness
Your little learner will learn to accurately process, appreciate, and work with sounds-the fundamental building block of all reading (and spelling) skills.
How it works
Building Confidence
Alongside all this, we work on the rapid recognition of the most common words that appear in 65% of everything we read. This helps to build fluent and confident reading.
Phonics
As they progress, your little learner will discover that some letter combinations make different sounds and some groups of letters make multiple sounds! This helps accurate and fluent decoding.
The Big Word Trick
Let's Fly also builds confidence with our big word trick. We meet challenging and potentially intimidating words in a fun, familiar way to take the fear out of reading.
Visual Understanding
We practise common hiccups struggling readers come up against such as left-to-right scanning, letter orientation, and letter sequencing. Words start in the Open Dyslexic Font, helping little eyes read easily.
Comprehension Skills
Let‘s Fly nurtures comprehension skills. This ensures that our little learners also develop the skills and confidence to understand and interpret what they read.
Everything you need is included
Let’s Fly Books no. 1 & no. 2
Two colourful A4 interactive hardback books. Write directly in each book and follow along each page to progress through the programme.
Magnetic Whiteboard & Letters
For specially designed exercises in Let's Fly that practise sound work, connect letters with their sounds, and build words in a fun way!
Ted and Tat's Tick List
2 little A6 booklets to tick off all letters and word patterns learned. With sticker rewards too!
Stationary ‘n Stuff
4 double ended highlighter/ fine tip pens, an orthographic pencil, a whiteboard pen and eraser, a stop watch and a tub of play
dough. Plus 2 bookmarks to practise tricky words.
How to use Let’s Fly
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Let's Fly is designed to be used in regular, short bursts, working at your child's pace - anything from 10 to 30 minutes per day, preferably 5 days per week, will make a huge difference.
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The Let's Fly programme needs an adult working alongside a child - it is very straightforward - simply follow along the progression of each book.
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Very simple instructions are included alongside each exercise, with additional supporting material on the Let's Fly YouTube channel to help you visualise how a lesson might look.
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Each book takes roughly one school term. Every child learns at their own pace, however. Take Let's Fly as speedily or as slowly as your little learner needs.
A typical lesson
4 minutes: Let's Fly Section 1
4 fun warm-up exercises per day that work on the awareness of sounds and speedy recall of letters and the common words that are in 65% of everything we read.
15 Minutes: Let's Fly Section 2
1 or 2 pages per day - putting sounds, letters and words into long-term memory. With lots of lovely games, silly sentences and poems to practise new words.
1 Minute: Practise ‘tricky’ words
Some pesky words need a bit more practise. Write these on the bookmarks with the whiteboard pen and practise them at the end of every lesson.
See if you can find Buzz Bee hiding on every page!
Checking progress
Ted's Tick List and Tat's Tick List
Each book has a corresponding Tick List booklet. When you see the icon on the page, go to the Tick List booklet and tick off the letter or word patterns worked on. This helps to embed learning and earn a sticker reward for all the fantastic effort! But best of all, it shows improvement, helping to build confidence.
