Explode the Code 1: Essential Lessons for Phonics Mastery Paperback – 1 July 2015

I homeschool my 5 nearly 6 year old and we've been using Alpha phonics as our primary phonics curriculum but daughter has been giving me a lot of resistance to the written part of the Alpha-phonics programme so I had to go back to the drawing board and I found Explode the Code. Explode the Code is lighter on the written requirements. The child circle the correct letter, word or picture or they must trace for example. It's much friendlier to a writing resistant child e.g. anything more than 2 sentences being too much. She did the practice pages and was quite happy to do all the practice pages in one sitting. I think level 1 is a little easy for her, however, it's great to get her back in a positive mindset towards writing and phonics so best to build from the winning streak we've discovered. I think she'll breeze through book 1 to book 2 pretty quickly. Based on our early experience with Explode the Code this is a win. I recommend this workbook as beneficial addition to a Reception/KS1 curriculum.

Love the explode the code series.

My Little one loves these books