Welcome to Alphabox!

FUN FILLED GROUP SESSIONS LEARNING ABCs

Alphabox is a pre-school parent/carer and child group teaching phonics through stories, games and creative activities.

Phonics is the means by which we are able to help our children to crack the code for reading.  It enables them to assign a sound to the letters they see in print.  More significantly, since children are able to make sounds from an early age, phonics enables them to transfer a sound (phoneme) they are able to make into a symbol that is written down (a grapheme).  It is this grapheme/phoneme correspondence that will provide the children with the basic skills they need to be able to read.

If only it were that simple! In order to make sense of letter strings and turn them into words, the children also need to learn to blend (synthesize) these sounds together.  Alphabox teaches children both of these skills and helps parents/carers to understand how they can support their child too.