Letters really come to life in this new and exciting Letterland software. Use the software to listen to the sounds, build words on screen, blend and segment words, and share animated versions of the stories that explain all the key spelling patterns. The software also features interactive cards to revise all the sounds and spelling patterns, as well as a Word Building section to bring blending and segmenting sounds to life!

 

. 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 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!