Toe by Toe

Toe by Toe is a fantastic resource. We use it in school with pupils who still haven't grasped or secured the basics in phonics. They enjoy working through it and it's very easy to see the progress. Ten minutes a day; five days a week and pupils (and parents) are amazed at how quickly they can pick up a book and read with some enjoyment!
Nov 7th, 2018

Love this program. Had such a positive experience with my 11yr daughter that I decided to buy another book for my 14 year old. Love it xo
Mar 8th, 2019

We started TBT 10 weeks ago and for the first time in my sons life he is able to read words and sentences, it actually teaches children to decode and encode words. And gives them rules to follow on how to deconstruct words. We would be lost without it..
Jan 4th, 2019

I have been using tor by toe for some 12 years now and I cannot praise it enough! I have used it with one of my most dylslexic pupils ever and got him reading and accessing the school curriculum within 2 years. I dont thnk he could have done that ever without toe by toe. Along the line, I have used it wth struggling EFL children with hige success. Three years ago I began working in a private international school and have introduced it to our children whose reading is not as fluent as they would need to access the rest of the curriculum. I have trained our TAs and we have about 20 children each day who work on it daily. The only big disadvantage of Toe by Toe is that it doesneed 1:1 intervention - and in a busy school it is hard to timetable in the 15 minutes needed by both the TA and the child. I did manage to get round that yesterday by training a mum on Toeby toe- and she will do it with her son daily, popping in to see me if she needs clarity. I think my greatest celeberation is about the pages which have whole sentences on them: at first I thought 'Oh oh! This is going tobe exhausting for my pupil. S/he is going to get really irritated here!" Amazingly, I see an entirely opposite effect: the fact that they have become so confident decoding, they are delighted, OVER THE MOON to disocver they can actually read a whole page! I am always flabbergasted at their willingness, eagerness todo the whole sentence pages! Brilliant wokr Cowlings! And I am using it for all studnets who need a phonological awarenss nudge - so I don't even need to talk dyslexia. Just phonological awareness. Now I want to understand the spelling program...
May 2nd, 2019

Toe by Toe has been an absolute saviour for thousands of children and adults who have struggled learning to read thanks to the devotion of Keda Cowling. I am a teacher of almost 30 years and for the past five, been SENCO and tutor of children with specific learning difficulties including Dyslexia. I became so interested I completed a 2nd Masters degree in specific Literacy difficulties and remediation. I came across Toe by Toe the following year and was blown away by the quick success in teaching kids to read! It is structured, multi sensory and culminative. In small steps, beginning with basic phoneme grapheme correspondence and building on that in a structured way, it helps give struggling readers the deciding skills to succeed. By the end of this little red book, children are able to syllabilise and attack difficult words such as psychological and physiotherapist as well as read them in context. And all this in the space of just months rather than years! Thank you Keda Cowling. I wholly recommend this little red book named Toe by Toe to reflect the smallest steps it forces children to take which are necessary building blocks on this road of reading and Literature.
Feb 18th, 2019