The recipes are designed for absolute beginners through to more established readers. The beginners will need support to ensure they are using sounds accurately and also for you take use the teachable moments to grow their reading.

Step one is a simple assessment. Even if your child is a competent reader, they can still benefit from the structured recipe system and use this to easily develop their cooking skills with simple recipes. So many recipes out there for 'kids' still require extensive adult support.

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Congratulations if you have managed to sneak a moment to get to this point. Gold star if you did it without being interrupted by a child asking for snacks.

I get it. It has taken me days to get this written up, simply because of family life.

But reading practice is one of those things I know you will be prioritizing with your kids. We all want our kids to be confident fluent readers.

Whilst using a recipe will take longer than reading practice in a book, it is actually more efficient for families. This is because of all of the other skills used at the same time.

AND… you don’t necessarily by the adult that they do the recipes with. This is a great opportunity for grandparents, other relatives or adults to step in. The goal is the learning process and not perfection. So you could outsource this to nanna and not have to spend time finding activities for them to do together. Oh and you may even get a cookie to eat with your cup of tea at the end of it!

Each recipe comes in three different reading levels. They are visual recipes so use a combination of pictures and carefully selected words based on my extensive time working with and listening to early readers (I spent over 2000 hours working 1:1 as an online reading tutor and 5 years as a primary classroom teacher).

Perfecting phonics for readers who know a few sounds and are working on blending simple cvc words together. Victorious with Vowels for readers who are working on digraphs and fabulously fluent are readers who are securing their phonics knowledge. Oops sorry if that got a bit teacher talk for you there but this is designed to make learning to read effective and purposeful.

On top of all of that each one I test on my own early reader. And anyone who has worked with their own child will know how honest they are if they actually work….

I have poured hours and hours into creating this method from my time using them in the classroom with reception children (I found one of my original ones recently and wow they have come a long way!) to the time we spend creating them in my own kitchen. Not to mention the hours I have spent listening to children read and teaching daily phonics lessons.

I have taken all this and packaged it up into a recipe you can grab and go with. I colour code sounds to look out for, use the same format each time to make them easy to follow and include adult guidance for each one.

Inside the kit there is also support for helping your child’s reading AND how you can use the recipes.

The goal of them is to take your child from beginner baker to star baker and you to support rather than do all the work.

The recipes do most of the teaching. You are the facilitator who is there to support, teach in the moment when you see fit, get covered in flour and maybe eat something at the end of it.

As this is an instant access digital product in short, no.

Like I mentioned a few sections above, using visual recipes completely changed how we have been able to approach reading at home. When I realized I could squeeze so much authentic learning into one activity I was hooked.

I know not everyone is going to be cooking every week like we often are. But I want everyone in on this visual recipe thing. Reading NEEDS to have a purpose. I have packed as much value into the recipe club as possible so you can't help but say "why not try it?"

I know you want to be getting your kids reading and you want to do it with purpose.

Inside you'll find support to work on what recipe level to start your child with, 35 + recipes in an easy-to-download ebook, and a road-to-star baker map to follow along with other bonuses.

Not being a whiz at cooking yourself should never be -- and never needs to be -- a reason to not start cooking or baking with your child.

The recipes in the cookbook are fairly simple and kid tested. Including having a younger sibling needing attention whilst supporting the older one #mumlife. They will also be delivered to you in an order that builds confidence in the kitchen.

I know that cooking takes a bit more time and mess than other activities. But what other activity can use all five senses, use functional life skills and creates memories in the kitchen.

It’s also a great activity for grandparents or other adults to take a lead on and your reading practice is ticked off at the same time.

I’m here to guide you and save you a boatload of time when you get the recipes...even if you’ve never had your child follow a written instruction before!

This is a digital product so you will need to either print the recipes out or display them on a tablet.

Oh and of course you will need the ingredients for each recipe. This is NOT a meal subscription.

Absolutely. The recipes originally came from the classroom. There is special advice just for groups.

Learning to read is approached slightly differently from country to country. However, these recipes do not focus on following a specific phonics or reading program but a way of applying early reading skills. All recipes are in English.

So it does not matter if you are joining from the US, Australia or anywhere else the recipes are there for your early reader to give it a go and get in the kitchen which is an universal way of making memories as a family.

Some of the reading notes on the recipes are slightly more focused on UK terms when it comes to reading. But having supported readers globally, these are not big differences and do not affect the recipes in any way.

Following feedback, I have also made sure each recipe has temperatures in both Fahrenheit and Celcius and also included ingredient terms in US and UK English as this was a bigger stumbling point!

I recently added versions for gluten-free and vegan. Now, I am not a nutritional expert but have pulled out all the recipes that could work for these diets.

There are 9 vegan recipes and a further 8 that could be made with dairy alternatives.

There are 13 gluten-free with 2 are not edible but do contain flour and also this includes 3 oats recipes.

There is only one recipe that contains meat (if you are looking for the vegetarian option).

If you would like a full list of the recipes for each diet drop me an email at hello@readingmadedelicious.com or DM me 'Gluten' or 'Vegan' on instagram @readingmadedelicious