14th April; Mini Monster Mash – First Edition

This bite-sized newsletter is designed to be short and snappy — just like a little Mini Monster mouthful!
Each issue kicks off with some Top Tips, and this time, we’re featuring two brilliant ones from our phonics experts, Rhian Rogers and Toni Evans.

Here’s a challenge for you!

If you’ve got a clip under 60 seconds focusing on a micro-aspect of teaching phonemic awareness or early phonics, we’d love to see it.

📹 Best format: Landscape
✅ Best content: Practical, punchy, and shareable!

We’ll do our best to feature it in an upcoming Top Tips section — because learning from each other is what makes this community so special.

We’d love to highlight this beautiful piece on the importance of play — it’s essentially a love letter to what matters most in early years. If you haven’t read it yet, it’s well worth a few minutes:
🔗 Read the article

And of course, the recent Curriculum Review brought some helpful insights from a phonemic awareness and phonics point of view — especially around the ongoing impact of validated schemes.

Let’s call it: validating the validated!

🔗 Curriculum and Assessment Review: Interim Report – GOV.UK

We’re expanding both digital and physical resources for our Nursery Programme — but the very best ideas always come from you, our amazing Monster Phonics family.

If you’ve ever said:
💡 “I wish there was a resource for…”
💡 “I’d love something that helps with…”
… we want to hear about it!

Whether it’s a digital tool or a physical resource, drop us a line at 📧 info@monsterphonics.com with your idea.

We can’t promise to make everything (just like you can’t keep every parent happy!) — but we do promise to listen. We’re always better when we build together.