The global reading method involves memorising words as a whole, seeing them as pictures. This avoids mother tongue spelling or syllabification which could lead to unnecessary embarrassment for children who find those activities difficult. So your child doesn’t need to be able to read in their mother tongue to do well with global reading in Teddy Eddie lessons.

Although the Teddy Eddie Standard and Teddy Eddie ABC Education Packs look almost identical at first glance, there is an important difference in them: there are ABC worksheets. They are used to teach global reading on the Teddy Eddie ABC course; there are no such tasks in the group for younger children. In addition, the ABC lessons are 10 minutes longer – this is because there is more material to be learned. If the children are learning the same story, the teachers’ expectations for them will also differ. An older child will be expected to learn more from the reader than a child in a younger group. In the Teddy Eddie method, the same book gives you the opportunity to work with children of different ages in a way that maximises their language potential.

Students can achieve even better results if Mum or Dad is also involved in the language learning process. With the Parent’s Guide and access to the course recordings (both components available in every Teddy Eddie Education Pack), parents are able to play games at home and sing songs from the course. Their child is sure to be enthusiastic, because this activity, even if it is in English, in the child’s eyes will still be just fun (however, through our experienced methodologists’ eyes, it will be a step towards making foreign languages become more familiar to the child at this early developmental stage).