Letterland Grammar introduces the grammatical concepts in Key Stage 1, Year 1 and Year 2 of the English National Curriculum, including punctuation, writing sentences, prefixes, suffixes and tenses. The emphasis is on bringing these concepts to life so children can understand them, remember them, and use them in their own writing. Letterland Grammar is an interesting world to explore, where words become buildings and sentences become streets. The punctuation we see is road signs on those streets, indicating what is happening. As a child is reading, all they have to do is think of their little finger as a car going along a street looking out for signs along the way! The Teacher's Guide also includes a Resources CD which includes: * Examples to print out or project on a whiteboard for every lesson* Letterland Grammar Flashcards - to demonstrate concepts in each lesson* 'I can do' certificates* 'Little car' finger puppets - to make reading fun! * A free Artwork Store - so you can create your own Grammar wall displays* Songs to accompany Letterland lessons in the Appendix.The guide can be used with no previous knowledge of Letterland Phonics.

 

This book is suitable for Key Stage 1. KS1 covers school years 1 and 2, and ages 5-7 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. 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 116 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Letterland International .

Lucy Marcovitch started her career as a primary teacher in Leeds before moving to London to write teaching materials and non-fiction books for schools. A Safe Place is her first picture book for young children. She loves running and walking in beautiful places, reading (especially books written for children and young people), going to the theatre, music and watching her two young children grow up. Lucy lives in East London.