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Your child could be a tactile learner - needing to touch things to learn. Your child could be a visual learner - needing memorable, clever images to look at. Your child could be an auditory learner needing engaging stories and rhymes to listen to. In this wonderful multi-sensory sequel to Phonics Touch & Trace, the Phonics Touch & Spell book allows children to learn how letters come together to make new sounds in a way that suits them best!

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Letterland Phonics*

Enjoy the textured letters to touch and trace, stories to read aloud and vibrant illustrations filled with things to find.

Read the stories and finger-trace the textured lett ers

Featuring 40 essential spelling patterns with plenty of things to find containing the target sound, your child will develop their phonic skills quickly.

The child-friendly story logic appeals to children’s minds, making the phonic facts easy to remember forever.

You may also like: * ‘Phonics Touch & Spell’ is a supporting product. Letterland Phonics (revised edition) meets the Department for Education (DfE) criteria for effective systematic synthetic phonics teaching.

Code: TH11 £7.99 ISBN 978-1-78248-090-7

Textured letters!

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Child-friendly phonics

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About Letterland Letterland is an imaginary place where letters come to life! The friendly Letterland characters help children to easily understand the sound and shape of letters – one of the key skills needed when learning to read and write.

Simple stories about the Letterland characters explain letter sounds and shapes, so that confusion over similar looking letters is avoided and children are motivated to listen, think and learn. One of Letterland’s keys to success is its ‘Sound Trick’. By just starting to pronounce a character’s name, such as ‘a…’ (Annie Apple), ‘b...’ (Bouncy Ben), ‘c...’ (Clever Cat), a child automatically says the correct letter sound. It’s that simple! The combination of memorable characters and proven educational principles makes Letterland the ideal way to introduce your child to the alphabet.

Moving on from the alphabet, Letterland teaches all 44 letter sounds in the English language, through stories rather than rules. The stories explain the sounds letters make when they come together in words. Learning new spelling patterns is wonderfully child-friendly with Letterland!

For more information, including a pronunciation guide for all the letter sounds, see: www.letterland.com

Annie Apple

Bouncy Ben

Noisy Nick

Oscar Orange

Clever Cat

Peter Puppy

Dippy Duck

Eddy Elephant

Quarrelsome Queen

Red Robot

Firefighter Fred

Sammy Snake

Golden Girl

Talking Tess

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About this book Letterland Phonics Touch & Spell transports young readers to the imaginary world of Letterland, where letters spring to life and their sounds are taught in a unique story format. These brief, beautifully illustrated stories give child-friendly reasons why, when certain letters come together, they make a completely new sound.

After each story, talk about the Letterland characters and the story reasons for their change of sound. Spend some time finding objects in the illustrations that contain the new sound. Let your child point to and say each object, so they hear it repeatedly coming from their own mouths.

Whether at home or school, your children will quickly discover how easy it is to remember the new sound just by learning the story reason for it. What’s more, the textured letter shapes with directional arrows help your child to remember how to form letter shapes. By getting these ‘movement pathways’ correct you will be ensuring that when your child moves on to joined-up writing, the transition will be much easier.

Letter shapes - Children can finger-trace the textured letter shapes on each page. The dots and arrows help with starting positions and correct letter formation. (Where there are two arrows, the first stroke is shown by the longest arrow).

Phonics skills - Have fun emphasising the sound again and again as you look for all the objects that start with the same sound.

Reading skills - There are ‘Read, look and touch’ sections throughout the book. Try reading the simple sentences together.

The sentences contain the sounds that have just been introduced as well as some high-usage words.

Harry Hat Man

Impy Ink

Uppy Umbrella

Vicky Violet

Jumping Jim

Walter Walrus

Kicking King

Fix-it Max

Lucy Lamp Light

Yellow Yo-yo Man

Munching Mike

Zig Zag Zebra

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Contents ng, ing ............................................................ 5 sh, ch, th........................................................ 6-7 ph, wh (as in when), wh (as in who) .................... 8-9 a_e, ai, ay ..................................................... 10-11 e_e, ee, ea, y (as in very) ................................. 12-13 i_e, ie, igh, y (as in my) ................................... 14-15 o_e, oa, ow (as in show)................................... 16-17 u_e, ue, oo (as in moon), ew ........................... 18-19 wr, ar, or ....................................................... 20-21 er, ir, ur .......................................................... 22-23 u (as in put), oo (as in book), oi, oy...................... 24-25 aw, au, ow (as in how), ou .............................. 26-27 Read, spell, review!........................................ 28-29 Words we use a lot! ...................................... 30

Phonics Touch & Spell Flashcards This set of 40 textured cards features spelling patterns (digraphs).

One side shows the Letterland pictograms in full colour and the other features the plain letter shapes. Ideas for games are also included.

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When Noisy Nick and Golden Girl sit together in a word they are so happy they make a singing sound, ‘ng’.

king ring song You’ll often hear the ‘ng’ sound in the suffix ‘ing’ in words such as:

driving

exciting

sliding

The king is singing.

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When Clever Cat sits next to Harry Hat Man, his hairy hat tickles her nose and she almost always sneezes, ‘ch!’.

chick chin chop Whenever Sammy Snake starts to hiss loudly behind Harry Hat Man’s back, Harry turns back and says ‘sh!’ because he hates noise.

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Talking Tess knows Harry Hat Man hates loud noises so whenever there’s thunder, Tess hurries to his side saying ‘There, there. It’s just the thunder’.

thick thin thing

This chick is in the ship.

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Read, spell, review!

Look at these words and try reading as many of them as you can!

ng king ring song

ph alphabet phone photo

ay play say tray

i_e fine like size

ing driving exciting sliding

wh (as in when) when whisk why

e_e athlete delete these

ie flies pie tie

ch chick chin chop

wh (as in who) who whole whose

ee bee sleep tree

igh light night right

sh shed ship shop

a_e cake gate plane

ea meat read sea

y (as in my) fly my try

th thick thin thing

ai rain train paint

y (as in very) copy empty windy

o_e home nose rope

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oa boat coat road

wr wrist write wrong

u (as in put) bush pull put

ow (as in how) cow crowd now

ow (as in show) grow snow yellow

ar car farm park

oo (as in book) book cook look

ou cloud out sound

u_e cube tune use

or fork north storm

oi boil coin join

ue blue clue true

er danger her ladder

oy boy joy toy

oo (as in moon) food moon spoon

ir bird girl shirt

aw draw saw yawn

ew few grew new

ur burn fur turn

au cause launch pause

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With a little help from your Letterland friends!

This is a list of the100 most commonly used words in the English languge. Now you know the Letterland stories, just look how many of them are made easier to read!

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41. not

61. look

81. put

22. with

42. then

62. don’t

82. could

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23. all

43. were

63. come

83. house

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to

24. we

44. go

64. will

84. old

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25. can

45. little

65. into

85. too

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in

26. are

46. as

66. back

86. by

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27. up

47. no

67. from

87. day

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28. had

48. mum

68. children

88. made

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29. my

49. one

69. him

89. time

10. it

30. her

50. them

70. Mr

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was

31. what

51. do

71. get

91. if

12. you

32. there

52. me

72. just

92. help

13. they

33. out

53. down

73. now

93. Mrs

14. on

34. this

54. dad

74. came

94. called

15. she

35. have

55. big

75. oh

95. here

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36. went

56. when

76. about

96. off

37. be

57. it’s

77. got

97. asked

38. like

58. see

78. their

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39. some

59. looked

79. people

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40. so

60. very

80. your

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Child-friendly phonics The Letterland system teaches all 44 sounds in the English language through stories rather than rules. There are resources to take children from the very ďŹ rst stages of learning to full literacy.

ABC Trilogy

Picture Books

Sticker & Activity Books

Games & Puzzles

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