Bug Club

[BrutusMcDogface]

Any teachers on here able to defend/explain the benefits of Bug Club? I bloody hate having my child’s “reading books” on screens. The teacher said that new ofsted guidance says that children must only be given reading books with sounds they know. My child is in Year R and doesn’t know many sounds yet, and he won’t have worded books until he can sound out words. By which point, it will be words like “sit”, “pin” etc.

Please explain how ofsted now wants children to learn high frequency/“tricky” words? I am a teacher but have moved from mainstream to special and seemingly have become out of the loop.

Thanks in advance!

oh...I thought this was about an afternoon club learning about the different and wonderful fauna we have. So disappointed. Sorry I cant help

wanders off sadly

Is he not getting physical books as well as books on Bug Club? I think Bug Club can be a great additional resource, but it shouldn't replace physical books.

High frequency/"tricky" words should also be learnt with a phonics first approach, only teaching the tricky part as "tricky". For example, with the word "said", the first and last letters are making exactly the sound you would expect them too, it's just the middle letters a and i making a /e/ sound that are "tricky". This means that when a child is trying to read a "tricky" word, you don't just say "oh, that's tricky, you can't sound that out, the word is washing", you can let them have a go and then say, "in this word, the letter a is making an /o/ sound". Then they can trying again "w-o-sh-i-ng" and then decode it.

Sounds silly to me. My dd learned to read before school (lived overseas at the time, they start later) so I taught her my way, logically rather than some fad. Do lots of reading of proper books at home and you can't go wrong. I suggest phonics readers like the usbourne ones. Let school do their method but a mixed approach works for most children

Evidence for a mixed approach working for most children?