In our experience, children love to do things themselves, it gives them a real sense of achievement and as we’ve learned they thrive on reward and recognition, so they often do things independently to earn that praise. Whilst our Funny Phonics flashcards are 100% designed to be a shared, active and fun activity, we’ve made them simple enough for a child to pick up independently and start to engage in the reading process themselves, when they fancy it. In fact leaving the cards out and accessible will really help them to take an active role in the learning process. Don't worry if they don't get it right all the time during their own play... the fact they want to pick them up is the most important thing. For example in this home video clip…