New Phonics boy on the block

Posted by 14 on the 22nd June, 2011

Maybe everyone else already knows about Mr Thorne, but I didn't (Thanks for the tip, Angie McC!!)  Wonderful website with videos. It's aimed at teaching / reinforcing synthetic phonics to young children (and parents) but also useful for older children as it's not too babyish (well, OK, giraffe puppet --but cute!) but he's a trendy young guy so acceptable to girls and and a good role model for boys. There are over 200 separate 'lessons' all carefully organised into the appropriate Phonics 'Phase'. Also found in the iTunes Apps store (a range of cheap and useful iPad Apps), on YouTube, iPlayer, DVD and on Twitter.  Have a look!