Anyone
who thinks phonics are safe and dull hasn't met the Word Machine.
Initially a gurgling
spouter of random sounds and letters that flock, gallop and splatter
across the screen, the Word Machine gradually learns (with us) how
to put phonemes and letters together and how to take them apart. These
programmes are both great fun and carefully directed to specific phonic
teaching. Ideal as a "lesson starter", each programme is closely focussed
on one particular group of phonemes. In spectacular graphics, animation,
real world action, song and music, letters and phonemes take on a
highly entertaining life of their own.
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