Just sixty one sounds and one hundred words – Is ERR a phonics reading revolution?

Some people this may seem like old hat, but the more we hear about the endless education debate and a ‘crisis of literacy and numeracy’ the more this programme intrigues. After all, it is quite a claim, that by learning about 61 sounds and 100 words children will be equipped to access 50% of the vocabulary […]

All of that guessing leaves them adrift

It has come to my attention that many of the young who seem to be strugggling with reading have a bit of an attention problem. It seems to be particularly, although not exclusively, young boys. Whenever we invite them to read a simple CVC word such as SIT, they try decoding but if there’s a problem, the guessing […]

FruitPhonics - sounds like singing in an orchard….

FruitPhonics is a strand of a larger project designed to develop entertaining, multiplatform interactive learning content. In contemporary education, despite the hyperbola of the natives with careers to make and products to sell, the paradigms remain resolutely old world.

Blabber has a brand new Phoneme set

satipn is not an anagram, code or the transliterated name of some exotic Thai beach. It is the grouping of the first six phonemes to be released on the FruitPhonics website.
This momentous event has made the gang very happy, relieved now that the interminable stress of waiting is over. They’re giddy with delight at being out and about among the learning young […]

The BlabberFruit Blog is Live

There are so many things still left to do, but they’re getting tetchy, so I guess, in the great tradition of surrendering to pester power, it is time to get our little fruits into the limelight…the rest is up to them.
So let’s hear it for the BlabberFruits from FruitPhonics……