Collins Big Cat Song of Sounds is a hands-on systematic synthetic phonics programme that meets the learning needs of your whole class - and puts the fun back into phonics.

Song of Sounds has a song at its heart that teaches children all of the phonemes necessary to read and write English successfully.

Stage 2 for Year 1 contains 30 weeks of instruction. Each week has four short daily sessions and a longer consolidation session at the end of the week to put phonic skills into practice.

A resource CD contains software presentations to use throughout plus printable resources for the activities.

The Song of Sounds Stage 2 Year 1 Pack contains:
- Audio CD
- Teacher's Handbook
- Resource CD
- Flashcards
- Green words and sentence cards
- Tricky word cards
- Phoneme stars
- Phoneme finder sheet
- Lotto game
- Classroom frieze
- Picture cards

This book is part of a book series called Song Of Sounds .

This book is aimed at the following children: preschool , primary school . This reading book uses the phonics method. This 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. 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.

This book was published 2014 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Sue Reed is the author of the Song of Sounds series for Collins UK. Liz Webster and Sue Reed are Headteacher and Deputy Head at Aldingbourne Primary School in West Sussex in the UK. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.