Let EaRL Coding Robot help teach phonics to your pupils with the EaRL Phonics Mat from Hope Education (90.5 x 122.5cm). This simple yet effective accessory for EaRL (not included) creates a fun and engaging way of incorporating phonics play into the classroom.

• Use EaRL’s sound recording feature to record phonics sounds, and pupils can code EaRL to land on the correct phoneme or grapheme on the mat.

• Add the EaRL Phonics Mat to your bank of synthetic phonics resources and teach pupils to blend phonemes that EaRL lands on.

• Teach programming to KS1 pupils and begin to harness computational thinking whilst teaching phonics at the same time – it’s cross-curricular perfection!