Keep kids occupied at meal times with these fantastic doodle placemats. Each tear-off placemat features a letter of the alphabet so every meal time your child will be writing a new letter shape and playing games with the sound! They can draw a dinner for Dippy Duck, colour cupcakes for Clever Cat, squiggle spaghetti for Sammy Snake. With 36 placemats in total, every letter of the alphabet is covered as well as engaging handwriting and food related activities. Great for parties, to take to cafes and restaurants, or for every day fidgety eaters!

 

. This reading book uses the Synthetic phonics method. (This can also be referred to as 'blended phonics' or 'inductive phonics'). A phonics approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences. In Synthetic Phonics, children are taught to sound and blend from the start of reading tuition. Children are taught a small group of letter sounds and then shown how these can be co-articulated to pronounce unfamiliar words. Other groups of letters are then taught and the children blend them in order to pronounce new words. The pronunciation of the word is discovered through sounding and blending, and spelling by mapping sounds to letters. Consonant blends that cannot be read by blending are explicitly taught.

There are 36 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Letterland International .

Lyn Wendon is reading specialist who devised Letterland as a remedy for reading failure. Working among children with learning difficulties, she found they needed a style of teaching that not only explained letter behaviour, but also fired their imaginations. The result was Letterland!