Primary Phonics

Age 4-6
Make learning to read, write and spell fun. Our range of multisensory resources have helped teachers all over the world to teach synthetic phonics. Letterland is validated by the Department for Education (DfE) in England as a complete systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) programme.
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Curriculum Design

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Teacher's Guide

The Phonics Teachers Guide contains everything a teacher needs to deliver the Letterland Phonics program. It comprises 73 lesson plans, easy-to-follow blueprints as well as tricks & strategies.
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Blueprints

Pull out blueprints form the framework to lessons. They include brief instructions for each activity and suggestions for extra support and more challenge.
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Monitoring Progress

Fluency lists allow you to monitor progress daily, while periodic section assessments help you record both the success children are having and any information and skills they may be lacking.
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Skills and Learning Outcomes

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Phonemic Awareness

The Phonemic Awareness Fast Track section introduces all 26 a-z letters and sounds grapheme - phoneme correspondences.
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Letter Shapes & Letter Sounds

Children will learn correct letter formation and how to recognise both upper and lowercase letter shapes. Children also learn about consonant digraphs and long vowels allowing them to decode thousands of new words.
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Blending & Reading

After learning the first six letters, children begin to blend CVC words and start to read stories with the sounds they have just learned. Later they learn about consonant digraphs and vowels, allowing them to decode thousands of new words.
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Segmenting & Spelling

Children begin to segment sounds ito CVC words and will go onto spell words with adjacent consonants in words of four phonemes. New spelling patterns make more and more words accessible.
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Tricky & High Frequency Words

Through the programme children learn a steadily growing number of Tricky Words. Fluency and comprehension skills are built by reading more challenging stories.

Teacher Support

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Sample Scripts

Sample script to use as a guide for introducing Letterland characters.
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Tricks and Strategies

Helpul strategies that can be used in teaching to help children learn key concepts.
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Phonics Online

Downloads, instructional videos and animated stories and songs to provide digital support.
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Look Inside

Download our Sample Lesson Pack to experience how Letterland makes phonics engaging and effective. You’ll receive:

• A full lesson
• Picture Code Cards
• ABC Book sample
• Copymaster and Workbook samples
• Decodable sentences
• Fluency List
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