Toe By Toe is delighted to recommend ‘At Home with Dyslexia – A Parent’s Guide to Supporting Your Child’ by Sascha Roos. This book will empower parents by giving them the tools and strategies to deal with dyslexia, making them confident and knowledgeable in the process. It offers: Central to this guide is language of acceptance and celebration, emphasising a …
In partnership with Stewart D’Silva, an educational psychologist with Pearson Clinical, we have produced a webinar about Toe By Toe. Toe by Toe – A highly structured, multi-sensory reading manual for teachers and parents (ft. Frank Cowling).Join consultant psychologist Stewart D’Silva as he speaks with Frank Cowling about the Toe by Toe evidence-based phonics program for learners. Available now to …
The Toe by Toe reading manual has been written to provide a resource that will allow any literate person to teach reading skills. In addition to its use in tens of thousands of schools all round the world, Toe by Toe plays a vital role in helping struggling readers in prison and probation services in the UK, Ireland and Australia. It is …
Sixth formers at Shebbear College have been offering a helping hand to their younger counterparts. The older students have been giving up their free time to support young, improving readers in a new initiative by the Learning Support Department.
Article published in the Listener in New Zealand Developed in Britain, the Toe by Toe manual has unlocked the mystery of reading for thousands of people worldwide. It has been used successfully in Linwood College, New Zealand, and the Listener published a 4 page article.
A prisoner is bringing hope of a better life to fellow inmates by helping them learn to read and write. In the three years and six months that Mick Greenberry, 56, has been at Lewes Prison he has taught 96 inmates to read under a programme drawn up by charity The Shannon Trust. Recently, guards, prisoners and charity workers gathered at a …
Article published in TES Magazine on 22 April, 2005 Tony is a tall, well-built young man in his early 20s with a pleasant smile and a sunny disposition. He works with his father as a painter and decorator and appears to be doing very well. He’s courting, as they say in these parts and has just bought his first house. …
Article published in the Longford Magazine. Toe by Toe was featured in the Longford Magazine in an article about prisoner literacy, or lack of it. The Shannon Trust works with literate prisoners to become reading coaches, using the Toe by Toe manual as an affordable solution to prisoner illiteracy.
Article published by The Telegraph Magazine. Article is about the pioneering scheme used in prisons, through which inmates teach fellow inmates to read – see below.
A millionaire businessman gave away thousands of pounds of his own money when he visited a young offenders institution in South Staffordshire as part of a TV documentary. Computer entrepreneur Piers Linney also offered to personally “mentor” one inmate at Brinsford Young Offenders Institution upon release as part of Channel 4 show, The Secret Millionaire.
