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Phonics Catch-up Activity Book Ages 6+: Ideal for home learning (Collins Easy Learning KS1)
£3.80
Level: KS1
Subject: English
Learn the easy way with this Phonics activity book!
Including helpful questions and answers, this English book provides reassurance whilst supporting your child’s learning at home.
Combining useful English practice with engaging, colourful illustrations, this Phonics practice book helps to boost your child’s confidence and develop good learning habits for life. Each fun activity is designed to give your child a real sense of achievement.
Included in this book:
- questions that allow children to practise the important skills learned at school
- colourful activities that make learning fun and motivate children to learn at home
- helpful tips and answers so that you can support your child’s learning
Provides recap and additional practice for phonics phases 2-5.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Collins (25 May 2023) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 32 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0008617929 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0008617929 |
| Reading age | 5 – 6 years, from customers |
| Dimensions | 21 x 0.3 x 29.7 cm |
by Gadget Daddy
The Phonics Catch-up Activity Book Ages 6+ from Collins Easy Learning has exceeded my expectations in every way. As a parent actively involved in my child’s education, I’ve been on the lookout for effective tools to support their learning journey, especially in the crucial area of phonics. This book has truly been a game-changer.
The content of this activity book is incredibly well-designed, catering to children aged 6 and above. The activities are engaging, interactive, and thoughtfully structured to reinforce phonics skills in a fun and practical manner. Whether it’s blending sounds, identifying letter patterns, or building vocabulary, each exercise is carefully crafted to promote understanding and retention.
One of the standout features is the clear progression throughout the book. The difficulty level increases gradually, ensuring that my child is constantly challenged and motivated to learn. The instructions are easy to follow, making it a fantastic resource for independent learning sessions or parent-child study time.
What sets this book apart is its adaptability to home learning. The activities are concise yet comprehensive, making them perfect for short practice sessions that fit easily into our daily routine. This has been particularly useful during times when school-based learning is disrupted.
The book’s quality is impressive as well. The pages are durable and well-organized, and the colorful illustrations add a vibrant touch that keeps my child engaged. The layout strikes a balance between visual appeal and educational content, enhancing the overall learning experience.
As a parent, I appreciate the convenience this book offers. It’s an all-in-one solution that covers a wide range of phonics concepts, saving me the time and effort of searching for supplementary materials. This is especially valuable for busy parents like me who want to ensure their child’s academic progress.
In conclusion, the Phonics Catch-up Activity Book’s well-structured content, gradual progression, adaptability to home learning, and overall quality make it an indispensable tool for parents and educators alike.
by A
This book is good for home learning.
I ordered it for daughter. She did need some help and had to sit with her and explain it to her. This book seems a bit complicated.
The answers can be found in the back of the book.
by Lost John
‘Easy learning’? As what seems to be an attempt to categorise the entire English language (it can’t be done), the content of this book strikes me as hard work, tremendous hard work, for a six-year-old.
Are we really asking six-year-olds (or children a little older than that who have some catching-up to do) to know a digraph, a grapheme and a schwa when they see one? (And don’t forget about ‘split digraphs’!)
Set up as a PowerPoint presentation and run through quickly, the material could be a worthwhile exercise for interested adults – but it is linguistics, mostly irrelevant to learning to recognise a succession of words on a page and make sense of them, sometimes relying ultimately on context to be sure of what meaning is intended (e.g. ‘rose’ and ‘rose’).
Homophones that are spelled differently are mentioned in this book, those spelled the same are not.
Oh, and how to pronounce, plough, trough, slough, tough and some other ‘ough’ words? (Not covered in this book.) Some words just have to be learned, and my own brain at six years old would, I am sure, have been much better at learning more words and less of the essentially artificial classification of words and sounds.
As with the Collins ‘Phonics 4-5’ book that I have also reviewed, the word most readily conjured by some of the pictures is not necessarily the one intended, although that seems to matter less in this volume. The ‘Mansion’ may look like a country rail halt, and the smoothie could equally well be a milk shake (later, a similar drink becomes ‘squash’), but the intended word is usually printed not far away, so the necessary deduction is soon made.
Are British six-year-olds generally familiar with bagels, and does a unicorn necessarily have a long horn? Concepts such as ‘rehearsal’ (picture of a violin) may also be over-ambitious.
For adults, there is some fun to be had from the surreal flash fiction on page 7:
I go to sleep in the rain.
‘Are you sure?’ he said.
Her hair was short.
but I wouldn’t impose this book on a child (or myself) unless knowledge of all the strange and unnecessary concepts was considered vital to achieving a satisfactory performance in a SATS test.
by Cannella
Excellent educational product
Such a good idea
Really impressed
My daughter sits and does this without me even having to ask her to.
Highly recommend
★★★★★
by Jasmine T
This phonics activity book is colourful and provides a variety of activities to enhance the phonics knowledge that has covered in the classroom. I find the various letter combinations and sounds clearly explained and particularly useful knowledge points in this book because my six year old niece found them confusing before. Her mum helped her working through the first few lessons of the book because the digraphs and graphemes were pretty challenging for the six-year old. After repeatedly doing these activities to embed learning, she started to get familiar with the concept of digraphs and graphemes and sometimes did the activities independently. She is still working on this book and her mum that her knowledge on phonics has improved greatly.
by Wendy P
Got this for my son while off for summer and it’s kept him up to date with his phonics. I have sat with him to support him but great little workbook.