Your input in that way will make a huge difference. Teaching a child to read can be frustrating, but you want to do everything you can to avoid seeming frustrated or annoyed. Focus instead on how hard it is to learn to read! Imagine how you would feel learning to read Arabic text, for instance, and you will have a sense of what your child is dealing with. Each book is released when your child has become familiar with the letters and sounds of the words used in that book. Building that psychology of confidence is absolutely vital for a successful journey to strong reading, so we recommend that you reinforce it with constant praise of everything that your child gets right in each lesson too!

If your child has already done a bit of reading practice, the beginning of All Aboard will seem fairly basic, because we start with just a few letters. But it is much better to build solid than to build fast. There is no great rush. On the other hand, if you have an older child who has become very frustrated with reading and needs to catch up a bit, then our online “Easyread System” will be a better option. Search on Google for information on that. All of this is done in a gaming environment, so that your child is actually asking to learn to do reading practice each day. That may sound surprising, but give it a go to see what we mean! We are looking for a minimum of a full morning or afternoon per week on an ongoing, regular basis. In some instances, we will ask for your confirmation of your intention to volunteer for an agreed number of weeks.Our volunteers give different amounts of time, from a few hours per month to several days per week. We offer flexibility and aim to build a worthwhile volunteering programme in line with your skills and around the time commitment you can give. As a volunteer you will be covered by our Employer’s Liability and Public Liability insurance policies. To receive donations and assist carrying goods from the shop threshold to the sorting room at the rear of the shop The library will become available once your child has completed the first few lessons and is familiar with enough letters and sounds for the first book. We also have a library of books you can access on subscription, if you choose to. That is how we fund our development of All Aboard. There is no advertising on the app.

All Aboard makes that practice routine fun and free of stress for both of you, with short sessions full of games to exercise the different processes of reading.

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You should find your child is actually asking to learn to do reading practice each day. That may sound surprising, but give it a go to see what we mean!

If your child has already done a bit of reading practice, the beginning of All Aboard will seem fairly slow, but it is much better to build solid than to build fast. There is no great rush. Volunteering in our shops will give you work experience to enhance your CV or UCAS application and you will be a vital part of our shop teams. You will be assisting us greatly to raise money for the charities we support. You will learn about customer care and engagement and merchandising in a business environment. Learn about number recognition and counting as you zoom past planets and stars in All Aboard the Numbers Train, and practise shape recognition as you visit the park, the playground, the funfair and more in All Aboard the Shapes Train. Investments can experience large swings in value so trustees may, in a particular year, decide to realise and spend part of their charity’s capital or to invest part of its income.UK residents only. Entry closes at 11.59pm on Sunday 31st January 2021. Terms and Conditions apply (PDF). All Aboard is an app for children learning to read that is based on our fifteen years of research into the neurology of the learn to read process. Everything on the app is built on that foundation.

To understand and promote Gift Aid whenever possible including asking customers and donors directly whether this is applicable to them To maximize the potential for sales through visual merchandising in shop windows and within the shopIn this way, your child will be set up to succeed in each book reading session and you will see confidence building week by week. Without that careful scaffolding of your child’s success, reading practice can become very stressful for everyone. The library will become available once your child has completed the first ten lessons and is familiar with enough letters and sounds for the first book.