Phonics Lessons, Built for Your Whiteboard

A whiteboard phonics lesson has always meant the same basic ingredients: a word, sound buttons beneath it, and a teacher's marker segmenting live in front of the class. Grow the Code doesn't change any of that — it just moves the marker into software, so the sound buttons appear with a tap instead of a steady hand, and nothing needs to be printed beforehand.

Same programme, different delivery

Grow the Code is built on the same Letters and Sounds sequence, the same terminology, and the same Revisit–Teach–Practise–Apply lesson structure as the physical resources. That consistency matters practically: a lesson delivered by a class teacher, a TA, or cover staff looks and sounds identical because it follows the same script either way — just interactively.

What's actually in it

Beyond the live blending and segmenting demonstrations, the app covers animated letter formation for upper and lowercase letters, a library of fully decodable books that match the same phase progression as the print readers, and — once core phonics is secure — a Phase 6 section on suffixes and morphology, covering things like why "wasteful" isn't simply "waste" plus "full" tacked on.

Where it fits alongside print resources

Nothing here replaces the physical mnemonic cards, readers, or Smart Chute — it sits next to them. A school might teach the core lesson on the whiteboard via Grow the Code, then send a physical decodable reader home for practice, or use the app for whole-class teaching while a TA runs a keep-up session with print flash cards. Same programme, whichever format suits the moment.

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