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Published by Letterland International Ltd, Leatherhead, Surrey, KT22 9AD, UK www.letterland.com ©Letterland International 2003 Reprinted 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 10 9 8 7 6 LETTERLAND is a registered trademark of Lyn Wendon. The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. Sassoon Letterland Sans is a specially modified version of Sassoon Primary © Adrian Williams Design Ltd 1988-2008 All rights reserved. Any educational institution that has purchased one set of these cards may make duplicate copies of the six Rhyming W o rds Lists cards for use exclusively within that institution at a single site or school. Permission does not extend to reproduction, storage within a retrieval system, or transmittal in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, or duplicate copies for loaning, renting or selling of these six cards or any others in the set to any other institution or site without the prior written permission of the Publisher or a licence permitting restricted copying in the United Kingdom issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Written by: Gudrun Freese & Lyn Wendon Illustrations: Kerry Ingham, colour work by Verity Townend Designers: Tina Wendon, Verity Townend & Sarah Edwards
Letterland Vocabulary Cards INSTRUCTIONS ✔ Contents • 78 picture cards with rhyming words on the backs (three cards for each a-z letter sound) • 6 cards containing 24 photocopiable Rhyming Words Lists – one for each letter, except o and q (for which no rhyming words are featured) • Instructions and activity ideas
✔ Features of the cards The sentence on the front of each card helps you to link each word to an a-z Letterland character. Or you could make up your own simplified sentences, for example, “Firefighter Fred likes fish.” “Bouncy Ben has a blue bed.” The pictures with an additional blue border feature words made up entirely of regular sounds (e.g. ant, bed, cat, dog). Children can use these cards for blending and segmenting practice. The large words on the backs of the cards help children to link initial sounds to their letter shapes in written words. (Each initial letter is picturecoded with a Letterland character to help children make this link.)
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Several smaller rhyming words on the back of each card help children to develop the strategy of reading by analogy. The 67 rhyming words marked with arrows are all high frequency sight words, and are among the most frequently used words in written English.
Rhyming Words List
For easy revising, the rhyming words are also featured on the photocopiable Rhyming Words Lists included at the back of this pack.
✔ How does Letterland work? At the heart of Letterland teaching are the 26 a-z pictogram mnemonics. Each Letterland pictogram combines a plain letter shape with a familiar character whose name begins with that letter’s sound to make both the letter sound and shape memorable (Sammy Snake, sss …). The next level of Letterland teaching is made up of simple stories to explain changes in sound. For example: The Hat Man hates noise. So when Sammy starts hissing beside him, he hushes Sammy up: sh! To use the Letterland Vocabulary Cards as part of a complete Letterland teaching system, see the Letterland Teacher’s Guide or the Letterland ESL Teacher’s Guide (for those teaching English as a second language).
SOME ACTIVITY IDEAS ✔ Word sort and Alphabet line-up Choose some children to stand at the front of the class and become Letterlanders by wearing Letterland Picture Code Cards (in headbands or plastic pockets). Hand out Vocabulary Cards for the same letters to children seated in the class. Ask the seated children in turn to name the object shown on the picture side of their card and decide which Letterlander’s sound it begins with. Then ask them to hand their cards over to the children at the front of the class who are wearing the corresponding letter cards. These children now present the picture side of their Vocabulary Cards to the class. As they do so, prompt them to say who they are, for example: “I’m Annie Apple. I start words like ant, apple and acrobat.” Depending on the age and capability of the class, the children at the front could turn each Vocabulary Card over and invite the rest of the class to repeat the big word printed on the back.
✔ Blending & segmenting words There are 31 cards in this pack with an additional blue border around the picture. These blue-bordered cards all feature ‘decodable’ words (e.g. ant, bed, cat, dog, hat, in, lamp…etc.). Decodable words are made up entirely of regular letter sounds, so children can learn to read and spell these words simply by blending the sounds together (reading) or identifying each individual sound in the word (spelling). For more information on teaching letter sounds, see one of the Letterland teacher’s guides or the Letterland Picture Code Cards.
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✔ Who likes…? Show the picture side of a Vocabulary Card (e.g. cake) and ask, “Who likes cake?” Encourage children to respond with the name of the Letterlaner who starts the word (e.g. “Clever Cat likes cake.”)
✔ Reading by analogy (rhyming words) Children can use the picture to help them read the large word on the reverse side of each Letterland Vocabulary Card. The same large word will help them to read all the smaller rhyming words in the corners, using the skill of reading by analogy. Help children to identify letters that are the same in each word and demonstrate that they all make the same sound. From there it is a short step to reading all the words on the back of every card. Words that are marked with an arrow are high frequency words. Explain that these words appear more often than other words and encourage children to look out for them in reading books, displays and magazines, as well as in the wider world, for example, in street advertising. They will soon learn to recognise them by sight.
✔ Rhyming Words Lists: 250 words All of the words on the backs of the cards are also featured on the 24 photocopiable Rhyming Words Lists included at the back of this pack. (There are only 24 lists because we have not included lists for o or q due to a lack of rhyming words.) Children can work through the lists and develop a sight words vocabulary of 250 words. Use these lists for reading by analogy practice or for assessment.
✔ Phonemic Awareness Fast Track – learn a-z letter sounds in 2-3 weeks! The Phonemic Awareness Fast Track is a new Letterland teaching strategy for teaching a-z in the first 2-3 weeks of your phonics teaching. The Fast Track activities and procedures that use Vocabulary Cards are described in detail in the new Letterland Teacher’s Guide. You will also find photocopiable Fast Track Activity Sheets, Pupil Record Sheets and Assessment Activity ideas in the Teacher’s Guide.
EAL ACTIVITIES Letterland Vocabulary Cards are ideal for presenting and consolidating new vocabulary in EAL (English as an Additional Language) classrooms. Use the following activities as whole class activities, or set up all three activities around the classroom, letting the children play in pairs.
✔ Flash Cards Flash a Vocabulary Card quickly in front of the children. Ask, “Is this a… (e.g. cat)?” Children respond “yes” or “no”. Start off slowly to make sure the children know the words, and make sure you also include some questions where the answer is “no!”
✔ What’s hiding Place one Vocabulary Card behind another and slowly reveal the back card. Ask, “What’s this? / What’s hiding?”
✔ What’s missing? Display some Vocabulary Cards. Ask the children to close their eyes, then take one card away and ask, “What’s missing?”
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Annie Apple loves to act like an acrobat.
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Bouncy Ben loves to bounce on his bed.
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red
bed
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led sled
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Clever Cat has a shiny red car.
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car bar
jar
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Zig Zag Zebra loves living in the Letterland zoo with all her friends.
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too
zoo
oo boo coo
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blue
ball
bed fed Fred led red sled Ted
blue glue rescue true
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awake bake cake flake lake make snake take
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duck
dog
dinosaur
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