Welcome to Trugs
Help someone learn to read. Play trugs - the card games!
Here is the answer! A structured phonic reading resource for teachers, parents and carers
By playing trugs anyone who can read - parent, carer, grandparent as well as for teachers, parents and carers - can improve a child’s reading ability. It is fun playing the different styles of educational card games that lead you through the reading stages making the essential progressive phonic structure easy to follow. There are booklets to monitor the individual’s progress too! Each box contains 20 card games, a Reading Booklet, a Monitoring Booklet and an Instruction Booklet.
Why not have a look at our game simulator?
Keep an eye out for the new simulators which will appear here in due course
Trugs at The Education Show 2008
This is a short video extract of our stand at The Education Show 2008. We were interviewed for Teachers TV channel and this is the result.
Does trugs follow Government guidelines? Yes!
Trugs follows specific aspects of the Government’s Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF) Core Criteria as recommendations for a highly structured systematic phonic resource. For a full and detailed explanation visit: www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/phonics/programmes/publishers/readsuccessfullyltd
Does trugs follow school guidelines? Yes!
Trugs can be used alongside all phonic reading programmes used in primary and secondary schools including Letters and Sounds (phases 2 and 3) and synthetic phonics.
How can I teach my child to read and enjoy the time together?
Those at home can help their child by supporting and teaching them to read by playing trugs - the word games. The card games are quick and fun and will help in the development of their reading skills thus ensuring a better understanding of phonics and how to read.
What is trugs?
Trugs is a high quality systematic phonic reading resource. There is no need for prior teaching experience.
A parent, carer, school or college can help their children learn to read simply by playing the card games.
If required, progress can be monitored/assessed using short text at each reading stage within the Monitoring Booklet.
These multi-sensory phonic card games enable children of all ages, including secondary, to progress with their reading. All slow readers, not just those with dyslexia, can improve their reading ability by playing trugs - the educational card games.
Anne Shipman a headteacher said:
"The TRUGS resources offer a highly structured and thoughtful approach to the teaching of reading. They would engage even the most disenchanted child in the reading process by providing an effective learning climate, which is unthreatening and fun. A box of TRUGS should be part of an intervention kit in every classroom!”