The Five Minute Box and The Number Box
The Wave 2 & 3 Intervention Solution for Literacy and Numeracy
20% of your children are probably struggling with reading and maths.
Thousands of schools use The Five Minute Boxes for literacy and maths – because they work!
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All You Need is The Box

The Five Minute Box and The Number Box are proven multi-sensory systems for teaching early literacy and numeracy skills and assessing children for potential learning difficulties.
Individualised Support

Thousands of schools worldwide find Five Minute Box and The Number Box effective intervention solutions from school entry upwards.The tried and tested teaching methods help you provide Personalised Learning and are excellent for children with English as an additional language (EAL). They work alongside any phonics resource already in use. Children, teaching staff, and parents love working with the Five Minute Boxes.
How It Was Developed?
The Five Minute Box programme has been designed by Jane Kendall, a Special Educational Needs literacy consultant, as a teaching system to provide secure basic skills for reading, spelling and writing.
What People Say
@fiveminutebox my son has gone from struggling with maths to being described as a competent mathematician thanks to your resource
You have really captured our imagination and we are all filled with great enthusiasm for the Five Minute Box…being used with great effect!
…how delighted we are with our Five Minute Box…it has been a great success…well worth the money. The children themselves love the Box too. It looks professional and business-like.
Latest News
Headteacher Magazine features the Ten Minute Box
The Ten Minute Box featured recently in Headteacher magazine. The article explains why some learners will struggle with learning digraphs and how the resource helps them to make progress.
Understanding & Supporting Learners with Dyslexia Level 2&3 online course
Accredited by CPDSO and brought to you by Patoss in partnership with SEND Solutions For anyone who works with learners with SEND/SpLD. Are you looking for a course to improve your understanding of learners with SpLD and to give you the skills and knowledge to support...
nasen Live 2021
Save the date: we’ll be exhibiting at the unmissable event nasen LIVE on 24 September 2021 - and coming to Birmingham’s Vox Centre. Come to Stand 32 and find out about our interventions in person! Tickets are on sale now at just £99 per person to access an outstanding...
New Product In Development
The Five Minute Literacy Box 2 has supported thousands of children through the next stage of literacy. We decided that it was time for an upgrade so we've produced a new, improved product to help with more complex phonics. Many children, especially those with...
New Literacy Box Introduction Video
We're excited to have updated our introduction video for the Five Minute Literacy Box. We listened to feedback from schools who told us...
NASEN Review – ‘Success in Learning’
nasen Connect_November 2019_The Five Minute Box review Thank you to NASEN's Connect magazine for publishing a fantastic independent review of the Five Minute Literacy Box. Parson Street Primary School in Bristol, England, used the Literacy Box in their setting and...