Literacy Box

The Five Minute Box was designed within school settings to fulfil several purposes:

• To screen all children entering school at age 5 to ensure that none ‘slip through the net’ and to provide baseline data for school records.
• To provide an easy to manage teaching system for any child who needed extra time to learn or to consolidate basic skills, managed by a Teaching Assistant for a few minutes a day.
• To ensure that any child who may turn out to be dyslexic has had multi-sensory teaching for 2 years rather than waiting to be diagnosed at the age of 7 and then having to start from the beginning again.
• To work alongside any phonic reading and spelling scheme already in place in school