Hamilton Education: materials and resources for anyone involved in the education of 3-11 year olds.
Code-Breakers
Code-Breaker Packs Spell it by Sound Nursery Activities Fast Track Extended Texts
Daily sessions Puppets Picture cards Book & DVD Graphemes

Code-Breakers is an exciting phonics programme for the early years which takes a sound-to-grapheme approach (i.e. synthetic phonics).
The materials provided enable teachers to run a complete set of daily 10-15 minute sessions from Reception to the end of Year 2.

Link to daily sessions
Daily sessions
Link to puppets
Puppets
Link to picture cards
Picture cards
Link to Code_breakers
Book & DVD
Link to Code_breakers
Extended Texts
Link to Code-Breaker packs
Code-Breaker Packs
Link to Graphemes
Graphemes
Links to Spell it by Sound
Spell it by Sound

Nursery Activities
Link to New Fast Track
Fast Track
Code-Breakers has been extensively trialled by Hamilton Reading Project and has undergone a number of re-writes based on both teacher and other educational specialist feedback. In addition, a number of schools across the country have run pre and post testing with their pupils which have then been compared with the control schools. Two key factors emerged:

The vast majority of children made improvements in all skills involved (segmenting, sequencing, encoding, decoding).

A secondary and important finding was that the children became far more motivated to write and to read and had increased in their confidence to 'have a go'!

The Code-Breakers materials are supplied in a choice of Packs (also available as individual elements). Click on the thumbnail images above to read more detail.

The Code-Breakers Book and DVD are available on approval in order for teachers to find out more about this programme before committing themselves to a purchase. Click here for more details.
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