Letters and Sounds

  • How to build and adapt the best approach for all your pupils (one size does not fit all)
  • Key guidance on Outstanding Ofsted Level 1 Letters and Sounds
  • Take away a full bank of resources to use immediately

A full update on related government initiatives

  • The Rose Review and the Core Criteria
  • The Primary National Strategy
  • Revised Primary Framework for Literacy and Mathematics
  • The Early Years Foundation Stage
  • Letters and Sounds: legal position, planning and resources

Implementing the Letters and Sounds Framework
Planning: structure and progression
A review of schemes, programmes and resources
Assessing and recording progress
Unpicking the basic and advanced alphabetic code

Practical activities for the classroom
Activities to develop reading: blending and segmenting
Strategies for spelling rules
Examples of children’s work
New strategies for assessing children’s progress
Record keeping: examples and templates

Embedding good practice
How to find age appropriate resources
Build upon your own good practice
Use and extend current resources

FREE CD ROM:
Loaded with a bank of activities, resources and assessments