A Busy Day, based on the daily life of a child, offers a different approach for those who find the process of reading difficult. It allows all children to experience reading success even before the skills of phonological awareness are fully developed.
Developed by an experienced teacher in a special school in Belfast, A Busy Day is based primarily on whole word sight recognition. The activities allow children to start to understand that text carries meaning by encouraging them to hear, say and match functional nouns to pictures and move the words around on-screen – providing an exciting multi-sensory and interactive experience.
This interactive reading tool can be adapted to suit the needs of slow starters in the mainstream classroom, those with communication and language difficulties and students learning English as a second language.
Highly motivational graphics, activities and games make it particularly effective for children on the autistic spectrum, those with Down’s Syndrome, attentional difficulties and those who are primarily visual learners.
