Young children are learning holistic. When they are playing, they are training skills, they are exploring their environment for getting to know how it is made, how it works. They pretend to do daily life activities to understand, what they see. They play role games to understand social contexts and to try out different behaviors. They do constructing games for developing an understanding of space. All in all that means, children are learning while playing. Ugandan government wants young children in nursery school to play. In this booklet you find ideas to create playing materials out of local resources, found in different places of Uganda.

There are some competences children must master before they are able to learn reading and writing sucessfully, especially weak learners. The activities of this manual should be done with the children BEFORE you teach reading or in the very beginning.

Local languages are based on a sound-letter correspondence. That's why it s crucial teaching not only names of letters but SOUNDs of the letters. You find many child-centered activities. The songs are out "Fun of Phonics" by Jody Spencer 2015.
We recommand to use actions for each sound. You sign the action an children guess the sound. You will help slow learners to perform much better. Consider the video below, it demonstrates all actions according to the manual.

Words in local languages are almost made out of syllables. That's why teaching syllables in the very beginning is the best option for being successful quickly. In the manual you will find all you need for the first term including a scheme for every day. Consider also the video about teaching with bottle line. Your children will like it so much.

Local languages are based on a sound-letter correspondence. That's why it s crucial teaching not only names of letters but SOUNDs of the letters. You find many child-centered activities. The songs are out "Fun of Phonics" by Jody Spencer 2015.

Teaching syllables in the very beginning is the best option for being successful quickly. Children learn to blend two sounds first. You start according to the Ugandan curriculum teaching vowels first by blending them with the first consonants. Be patient and teach one sound week. Don't go beyond teaching syllables. The you will create a great foundation for the next term, where all your children-even week ones -will be able to read.
In the manual you will find all you need for the first term including a scheme for every day. Consider also the video about teaching with bottle line. Your children will like it so much.

In the manual you will find all you need for the second term including a scheme for every day. Children are going to blend syllables and sounds to words - with bottle line. Consider the following video. Children will like it so much.

In this manual for the third term you continue sound by sound. Be patient and don´t teach others than decodable word to avoid confusing children.

In this manual you are going to finish the first set with the fourth assessment. Your children should be able to read all taught decodable words so far before you start proceeding to the next Module 5. It is also important, that you have taught ALL tricky words, because without them it is not possible to read English.

Now you proceed to second set of teaching "Fun of Phonics" (Jody Spencer 2015). All letters are introduced. Now you are going to introduce a variety of new sounds. For each new sound you will find a picture and a phrase - provided by Jody Spencer 2015 (Read for Life).