My Letters and Sounds Bring your phonics teaching to life Over 100 decodable Phonics Readers fully aligned with Letters and Sounds Daily lesson plans with supporting photocopiable and digital resources Write-in phonics workbooks that link to each lesson Handy Classroom Kits featuring physical resources High-quality CPD training
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My Letters and Sounds Affordable and effective phonics resources to get your whole class reading Schofield & Sims My Letters and Sounds is a DfE-validated systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) programme built around 120 stunning, fully decodable readers together with a wealth of teaching guidance and resources. The scheme has been carefully developed to provide schools that want to use the Letters and Sounds framework with an up-to-date and comprehensive set of resources that meet the Department for Education’s (DfE) revised core criteria for an effective SSP programme.
Classroom Kits
Fully decodable readers
Practice workbooks
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Expert training
Detailed teaching guidance
Step-bystep lesson plans
Digital resources and assessment
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What is included in the programme? 120 fiction and non-fiction fully decodable Phonics Readers. See pages 8–16.
Teacher’s Handbooks with daily lesson plans and photocopiable resources. See pages 18–21.
Workbooks help children practise phonics skills at home and in class. See pages 22–23.
Physical versions of some of the most popular resources, including friezes and mnemonic flashcards. See page 24.
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Why choose My Letters and Sounds? My Letters and Sounds is a DfE-validated resource that supports teachers to ensure that most children meet or exceed the expected national standards in Reception and Year 1. It provides a systematic and rigorous approach to teaching phonics to all pupils, including the most disadvantaged. Developed by expert authors, the scheme offers your staff everything they need to deliver effective phonics instruction, allowing them to concentrate on how to teach, rather than what to teach, and focus on the needs of their class.
Daily lesson plans that reduce teacher workload My Letters and Sounds provides a lesson plan for every day of your phonics teaching. Activities are engaging, multi-sensory and deliberately limited in number to promote an efficient pace of delivery. Each lesson is designed to take around twenty minutes, extending to half an hour as the children move through the programme.
Each lesson plan spread begins with a list of the resources – digital and photocopiable – needed for that week’s teaching.
Teaching follows a consistent sequence: Revisit and review, Teach, Practise, Apply, Assess.
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Beautifully illustrated Phonics Readers The My Letters and Sounds Phonics Readers are engaging, fully decodable stories that perfectly match the progression of the My Letters and Sounds SSP programme. Over 100 brand-new readers feature contemporary imagery that gives the look and feel of ‘real’, high-quality picture books. Vibrant illustrations fully and directly support the story texts.
Each book is written in natural language and focuses on themes and experiences that will appeal to young children.
Variations in sentence type and structure helps develop children’s comprehension skills.
Multi-sensory learning The My Letters and Sounds teaching guidance provides a range of multi-sensory resources to support the introduction of new grapheme-phoneme correspondence (GPCs), such as visual mnemonics, audio to listen and engage with, and physical activities, like tracing and sky-writing the letter shape using a range of materials and textures.
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Programme structure Phase
Book band
Phonics Readers
Pink A
Phase Two
Year 1
Reception
Pink B
6
Phase Three
Red
Phase Four
Yellow
Phase Five
Blue Green Orange
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Total readers
Pupil workbooks
Teaching support
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16
30
20
35
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Phonics Readers The My Letters and Sounds Phonics Readers are exciting, fully decodable stories that perfectly match the progression of the My Letters and Sounds SSP programme. Designed to be used from the second week of Phase Two, they allow children to apply their phonics skills to reading ‘real’ books from a very early stage. A variety of attractive, contemporary illustration styles give the readers the look and feel of real, high-quality children’s picture books. Written in natural language, with plenty of humour, the story texts focus on themes and experiences that will appeal to young children from a variety of different backgrounds. Vibrant illustrations are closely related to each story.
New GPCs and tricky words are gradually introduced to ensure children are given focused practice.
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Digraphs and trigraphs are underlined to remind children that the group of letters makes one sound.
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Tricky words are highlighted in blue.
Text devices such as captions and labels are gradually introduced.
Non-fiction stories appear from Phase Three to develop children’s reading-for-information skills.
Increased space is allocated to text rather than pictures.
High-quality photography is used in some non-fiction books.
Less familiar and some specialised vocabulary is used in later non-fiction texts.
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Phase Two Readers £3.00 each | 8 pages
Pink A Book Band Sam
Sit
Pin
978 07217 1744 9
978 07217 1697 8
978 07217 1823 1
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d
F
F
F
Sip
Dad
Tim
978 07217 1824 8
978 07217 1825 5
978 07217 1694 7
s, a, t, p, i, n, d
s, a, t, p, i, m, d
s, a, t, p, i, m, d
F
F
F
Tap It
Dig It
Man and Dog
978 07217 1826 2
978 07217 1746 3
978 07217 1747 0
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d
s, a, t, p, i, n, d, g, o
a, t, n, m, d, g, o
F
F
F
A Gap
Min and Sid
Cam and Kat
978 07217 1745 6
978 07217 1715 9
978 07217 1680 0
s, a, t, p, i, n, d, g, o
s, a, t, i, n, m, d, g, o
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k
F
F
F
Pip
Pop on Top!
Pick and Pack
978 07217 1685 5
978 07217 1827 9
978 07217 1716 6
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, o, c, k, ck
F
F
F
In the Net
The Kit
On the Red Rug
978 07217 1717 3
978 07217 1718 0
978 07217 1719 7
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, g, o, k, ck, e
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, e, u
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r
F
F
F
Peck, Peck, Peck 978 07217 1705 0
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, ck, e, u, r
Look inside a reader
F
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Phase Two Readers continued £3.00 each | 8 pages
Pink B Book Band Rap, Tip, Tap
Pack It!
Top Hat
978 07217 1829 3
978 07217 1828 6
978 07217 1699 2
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, o, c, ck, e, u, r
s, a, t, p, i, n, d, g, o, c, ck, e, u, r, h
F
F
F
The Big Hug
It is Fun
Go Get Nan
978 07217 1683 1
978 07217 1695 4
978 07217 1748 7
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, e, u, r, h, b
s, a, t, p, i, n, g, o, ck, e, u, b, f, ff
a, t, p, i, n, d, g, o, c, e, u, h, b, f
F
F
F
On the Hill
Run, Bug, Run
The Duck
978 07217 1696 1
978 07217 1720 3
978 07217 1830 9
s, a, t, i, n, m, d, g, o, e, u, h, b, f, ff, l, ll
s, a, t, p, n, m, d, g, o, c, ck, e, u, r, b, l
s, a, t, p, i, n, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, l, ll
F
F
F
The Big Pot
At the Till
The Pet
978 07217 1721 0
978 07217 1722 7
978 07217 1700 5
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, l, ll, ss
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, k, ck, e, u, b, f, ll, ss
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, e, u, r, h, b, f, l, ss
F
F
F
The Cup
The Mess
Sid
978 07217 1706 7
978 07217 1723 4
978 07217 1831 6
s, a, t, p, i, n, d, g, o, c, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, ll
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, k, ck, e, u, r, b, f, ff, l, ss
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss
F
F
F
The Picnic 978 07217 1832 3
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, ck, e, u, r, h, b, ff
F
Decodable readers are also available as free audiobooks. Play them on our website or YouTube to improve fluency, prosody and pronunciation.
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Phase Three Readers £3.00 each | 8 pages
Red Book Band The Jam Man
The Mix-up
Zak and His Set
978 07217 1710 4
978 07217 1673 2
978 07217 1686 2
j, v
j, v, w, x
j, w, x, y, z, zz
NF
F
The Big Quiz
The Jazzman and His Dog
978 07217 1701 2
Rush, Rush, Rush! 978 07217 1681 7
978 07217 1707 4
w, x, y, z, zz, qu
F
F
w, y, qu, ch, sh, th
j, w, x, y, zz, qu
NF
F
The King and the Ring
At the Shop
Chip Can Sit!
978 07217 1677 0
978 07217 1670 1
978 07217 1724 1
w, zz, sh, ng
j, v, w, x, sh, th, ng
w, y, ch, th, ai
F
F
F
I Can See…
The Web
The Right Gap
978 07217 1675 6
978 07217 1712 8
978 07217 1704 3
w, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee
w, th, ng, ai, ee
w, y, ch, th, ng, ai, ee, igh
F
NF
F
The Pet Goat
Cubs and Pups
My Coat
978 07217 1714 2
978 07217 1671 8
978 07217 1676 3
w, sh, ee, oa
w, x, th, ng, ai, igh, oa
y, ch, th, ng, ee, igh, oa, oo (long)
F
NF
F
Non-fiction stories in My Letters and Sounds Non-fiction books appear from Phase Three of My Letters and Sounds, where they consist of narrative non-fiction texts that combine fictional storytelling with real-life events. These books help to develop children’s reading-for-information skills and provide a gentle introduction to non-fiction text devices, such as captions and labels. In Phase Five, non-fiction texts are broadened out to also include information non-fiction and instructional non-fiction stories, which feature a wider variety of text devices, such as simple charts and diagrams.
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Red Book Band Dads and Mums
The Farm
This Boat
978 07217 1711 1
978 07217 1689 3
978 07217 1678 7
w, ch, th, oo (short)
w, sh, th, ee, igh, oa, oo (long), oo (short), ar
j, w, th, oa, ar, or
F
F
F
Boatman Toad
It Will Be…
Look Down
978 07217 1688 6
978 07217 1725 8
978 07217 1702 9
w, sh, th, ng, ai, igh, oa, oo (long), oo (short), ar, or
w, x, th, ai, ee, oo (short), ur
w, ch, sh, th, ee, igh, oa, oo (short), ar, ow
F
F
F
This Coin
In My Town
At the Zoo
978 07217 1708 1
978 07217 1713 5
978 07217 1726 5
j, w, x, sh, th, ng, ee, oo (short), ar, or, ow, oi
v, x, y, z, sh, ng, oa, oo (long), ar, ow, ear
w, z, qu, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oo (long), oo (short), ar, or, ur, ow, ear
F
F
F
At My Nan and Pop’s
The Pet-Sitter
Sal the Sow
978 07217 1674 9
978 07217 1727 2
978 07217 1692 3
w, ch, th, ee, oo (long), or, air
j, ch, th, ng, ee, oo (long), or, ow, ear, air, er
j, w, zz, ch, th, oo (long), ar, ow, ear, air, er
F
F
F
Hair
A Good Job
The Right Number
978 07217 1684 8
978 07217 1709 8
978 07217 1687 9
j, v, w, y, z, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, oo (long), ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, er
j, v, w, x, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oo (long), oo (short), ar, or, ow, er
j, w, z, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oo (long), or, ow, er
F
NF
F
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Phase Four Readers £3.00 each | 12 pages
Yellow Book Band The Best Dog
The Moon Landing
Bumps in the Night
978 07217 1690 9
978 07217 1682 4
978 07217 1787 6
Introducing CVCC words
CVCC words and so, said
Practice
F
F
The Trip
The Big Jump
The Top Bunk
978 07217 1693 0
978 07217 1788 3
978 07217 1789 0
CVCC and introducing CCVC words
Practice
CVCC and CCVC words and like
F
F
F
Thank you, Green Man!
The Crown
At the Swimming Pool
978 07217 1790 6
978 07217 1728 9
978 07217 1672 5
CVCC and CCVC words and some, come
CVCC and CCVC words and have
Practice
NF
F
NF
The Dark Green Boots
Stop That Chimp!
The Little One
978 07217 1698 5
978 07217 1791 3
978 07217 1679 4
Adjacent words and there, were
Practice
Adjacent consonants and little, one
F
F
F
The Clown
The Thunderstorm
The Winning Street
978 07217 1792 0
978 07217 1793 7
978 07217 1794 4
Practice
Adjacent consonants and out, do
Adjacent consonants and when, what
F
F
F
The Gifts
What Am I?
The Tent
978 07217 1703 6
978 07217 1691 6
978 07217 1729 6
Practice
Practice
Practice
F
NF
F
The Missing Hamster
Spook Night!
978 07217 1795 1
978 07217 1796 8
Practice
Practice
F
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Look inside a reader
F
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Phase Five Readers £3.00 each | 16 pages
Blue Book Band Waiting for Mum
The Garden 978 07217 1750 0
978 07217 1749 4
NF
Scout the Stray 978 07217 1753 1
ay, ou, ie
F
Words with contractions F
The New Teacher
Farmers are Fantastic!
978 07217 1754 8
978 07217 1755 5
978 07217 1756 2
ea, oy, ir
aw, ue, ew
oe, au, i-e
F
NF
The Car Boot Sale
The Light-Up Skates
Games in the Rain
978 07217 1757 9
978 07217 1758 6
978 07217 1759 3
a-e, o-e, u-e
e-e, wh, ph
Revising phoneme families: /ai/ (ai, ay, a-e); /ee/ (ee, ea, e-e); /igh/ (igh, ie, i-e); /or/ (or, aw, au); /ur/ (ur, ir)
F
NF
The Sleepover 978 07217 1762 3
978 07217 1761 6
F
Cousins in the Countryside
F
978 07217 1760 9
NF
Revising phoneme families: /oa/ (oa, oe, o-e); /oo/ and /yoo/ (oo, ue, ew, u-e); /ow/ (ow, ou); /oi/ (oy, oi)
Alternative pronunciations: a /o/; ch /c/ and /sh/
The Rainbow Unicorn
Your Amazing Body
978 07217 1763 0
978 07217 1764 7
Alternative pronunciations: ow /oa/; ie /ee/; ea /e/
Alternative pronunciations: er /ur/; y /ee/ and /igh/
NF
The Magic Show
The Doll’s House 978 07217 1768 5
978 07217 1767 8
NF
Alternative pronunciations: g /j/; c /s/
F
Alternative spellings: /v/ ve; /l/ or /ul/ le; /s/ -se and -ce; /z/ -ze and -se
How Do They Fly?
978 07217 1769 2
F
F
The Messy Chef
The Badge
Alternative spellings: /l/ or /ul/ al, el; /ch/ tch; /j/ dge, ge
Alternative pronunciations: u /yoo/ and /oo/ (short); e /ee/
978 07217 1766 1
978 07217 1765 4
Alternative pronunciations: ou /oa/, /oo/ and /u/
The Nest Box
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How to Photograph a Tiger
Alternative pronunciations: i /igh/; o /oa/; a /ai/
Words ending -s (/s/ and /z/), -est and -ed (/id/ and /d/)
The Compost Heap
Green Book Band
NF
978 07217 1752 4
NF
NF
F
NF
The Twins
978 07217 1751 7
Revising Phase Three graphemes
Revising Phase Three graphemes F
Let’s Have Lunch!
978 07217 1770 8
NF
Alternative spellings: /u/ o and o-e; /ee/ ey; /oo/ (long) ui
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Orange Book Band Time Travel with Gran
When Dinosaurs Walked
978 07217 1771 5
NF
NF
NF
Revising phoneme families: /oa/ oa, oe, o-e, ow, o, ou; /igh/ (igh, ie, i-e, i, y)
978 07217 1772 2
NF
Revising phoneme family /or/ (or, aw, au, aur). Alternative spellings: /or/ ore, oor and al
Beautiful Bees
The Lucky Card
978 07217 1775 3
978 07217 1776 0
Introducing new GPC ure. Alternative spellings: /ch/ (ture); /ar/ a, al
Spellings of schwa /er/ in the middle and at the end of words
F
F
NF
The WalkieTalkies
The Lonely Bear
978 07217 1773 9
978 07217 1774 6
Revising phoneme family /ur/ (ur, ir, er). Alternative spellings: /ur/ or, ear; /or/ al
Alternative spellings: /ear/ eer, ere; /air/ are, ear, ere
Grans and Grandads
Let’s Make Slime!
978 07217 1777 7
978 07217 1778 4
Alternative spellings: /n/ kn, gn; /r/ wr; /m/ mb
Alternative spellings: /s/ st, sc; /i/ y; /or/ augh, our, oar
Gymnastics Club
Eat the Rainbow
Treasures Under the Sea
978 07217 1779 1
978 07217 1780 7
978 07217 1781 4
Alternative spellings: /ai/ eigh, aigh, ey, ea
Alternative spellings: /sh/ ti(on), ssi, si, ci
Introducing new phoneme /zh/ and its spellings su, si
F
NF
F
NF
Furry Heroes 978 07217 1782 1
Words with prefixes and suffixes F
Jake’s Amazing Mission 978 07217 1783 8
Revising Phase Five GCPs NF
Phonics e-reader library The e-reader library features digital versions of every Phonics Reader from the programme. These electronic books can be displayed on whiteboards, computer screens or tablets.
Phonics e-readers are provided in a flexible and secure FlippingBook format that can easily be displayed on a range of digital devices.
The e-readers can be used for modelling reading at the front of class or reading as a whole group. They can also be used for one-to-one practice sessions or with small groups of up to six children who are at the same level in their phonics knowledge. A whole-school subscription is available for £240 per year.
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How to find the right readers If you are looking to supplement your current decodable readers, we recommend using the My Letters and Sounds Readers Phonics Coverage Chart to choose your books. This will help you assess how closely these readers match your school’s phonics programme in terms of the progression of grapheme-phoneme correspondences (GCPs) and tricky words. You can find the Readers Phonics Coverage Chart on the Schofield & Sims website or by scanning the QR code below.
View coverage charts
What does fidelity mean in phonics? Whilst the Department for Education recommends schools take an approach to teaching phonics that is both rigorous and systematic, they do not say that you have to use all resources from a single scheme. Instead, fidelity means that your phonics resources should exactly match the GPCs in the order that you are teaching them. You can use different decodable readers and teaching resources so long as they match your progression and your approach is achieving strong results for all pupils.
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Teacher’s Handbooks The My Letters and Sounds Teacher’s Handbooks for Reception and Year 1 include everything you need to teach systematic synthetic phonics with confidence. Each Handbook follows a simple structure, with content divided into teaching guidance (including advice on assessment), lesson plans and photocopiable resources, with additional resources available to download. Each Handbook provides a high level of support, both for teachers that are new to phonics teaching and for more experienced practitioners looking for planning that matches the latest best practice. Step-by-step instructions guide you through key teaching processes.
The Notes include strategies to use if some children struggle to grasp the new concepts.
Banks of activities are provided to facilitate regular practice of each phonics skill. These activities are also used in the weekly Lesson plans.
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The resources needed for the week are given in order of use, including the Phonics Practice Pupil Book and Phonics Reader(s).
Teaching is focused, with clear weekly and daily objectives.
Look inside a lesson plan
References to relevant sections of the Teaching guidance allow teachers to easily access more detailed instructions and support for each lesson.
A huge range of photocopiable resources are provided in each Handbook, including word cards and sentences with matching pictures.
Most resources are used in one or more of the activities, but they can also be used flexibly for extra reinforcement.
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Digital Resources Free digital resources are available to download for each My Letters and Sounds phase, including colourful displays, resource packs and games to support teaching and learning. Downloadable Assessment checks and corresponding Analysis sheets are also provided to help you evaluate individual children’s progress at the end of each phase. Many audio resources are available to listen to and join in with, including memorable alliterative sentences and read-aloud audiobooks for every decodable reader to help with pronunciation and prosody. Audiobook
“Ram can pack a top.”
The digital Resource Packs contain all the handbook resources you need to teach a week of lesson plans, in order, making preparing for lessons quick and easy.
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Assessment My Letters and Sounds helps you to track your children’s understanding over the course of each phase. Daily formative assessment is made manageable using ‘snapshot’ assessments of a different group of children during each phonics teaching session. Advice on summative assessment is also given at the end of each phase, helping you to choose appropriate next steps. In addition, optional Assessment checks enable you to assess a particular aspect of a child’s phonic knowledge, such as recognition and recall of graphemes, or spelling of tricky words. The summative assessment guidance in the Teacher’s Handbooks suggests when to use these checks with the whole class, but they can also be used with individual children as required.
A Daily assessment schedule helps you to divide your class into groups and focus on certain phonics skills each day.
In each phase, there are separate downloadable assessment resources to evaluate children’s developing phonics skills.
You can also find My Letters and Sounds on the online assessment and tracking programme, Phonics Tracker.
To order call 01484 607080 or email sales@schofieldandsims.co.uk
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Pupil Books These write-in workbooks can be used at school or at home to practise the key phonics skills of grapheme recognition and recall, blending to read and segmenting to spell, and build children’s confidence in reading and writing captions and sentences. With a page or double-page spread for every new learning point in My Letters and Sounds, the books provide highly targeted practice and integrated revision of recently learnt GPCs and tricky words. Carefully designed to appeal to young learners, the activities are consistent and predictable, and, as the children do not need to complete all the activities in one go, the books are easy to fit into your school timetable.
Activities use the mnemonic as a reminder to reinforce the new letter shape and its sound.
Each new GPC is introduced in a predictable way to encourage greater independence in the children.
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Activities cover recently learned GPCs.
Workbooks are useful for providing additional support to children who need help keeping up with their peers.
Find out more at www.schofieldandsims.co.uk/mylettersandsounds
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Regular letter-formation reinforcement activities are provided.
Look inside a pupil book
Writing opportunities become increasingly challenging as children move through the programme.
In Phase Five, familiar activities are used to introduce new graphemes, but there are more words to read to reflect the children’s growing stamina.
Answers to the Phonics Practice Pupil Books are free to download from the Schofield & Sims website.
To order call 01484 607080 or email sales@schofieldandsims.co.uk
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Ready-to-use phonics resources Save your staff valuable time with the new My Letters and Sounds Classroom Kits and resources. Made from high-quality, laminated card, these reusable resources will vastly reduce the amount of printing and photocopying needed to teach phonics. Resources can be purchased as a year-group Classroom Kit containing everything you need or as individual components.
When bought as a Classroom Kit, resources come with a free Bag for storage.
Mnemonics introduce new GPCs and demonstrate correct letter formation.
A Letter Formation Poster helps children to develop their letter formation skills.
Large-format versions of the Grapheme Cards and Word Cards can be used at the front of class or with small groups of children.
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Find out more at www.schofieldandsims.co.uk/mylettersandsounds
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Wipe-clean Phoneme Frames can be used to demonstrate segmenting with letters.
Large-format Friezes are provided to build up a colourful classroom display.
A Tog Posting Box is provided for children to post Word Cards and Grapheme Cards through Tog’s mouth.
Sound Mats for regular grapheme recognition and recall practice.
To order call 01484 607080 or email sales@schofieldandsims.co.uk
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Training for school staff The My Letters and Sounds training programme offers high-quality CPD for schools that need help implementing the programme and upskilling staff. There are four training sessions to choose from as well as bespoke options available upon request.
1. Phonics Subject Knowledge This session explores the fundamentals of Systematic Synthetic Phonics for effective reading instruction. We’ll unpack the alphabetic code, core concepts like blending and decoding, and the impact of the Reading Framework. We’ll also explore spelling, handwriting, and the teacher’s role in nurturing strong phonics skills.
2. Introduction to the My Letters and Sounds Progression This session will give you the confidence needed to teach the My Letters and Sounds progression. We’ll break down the recommended timetable, guiding you through each phonics phase in detail. We’ll address pacing and progression strategies to ensure all learners are appropriately challenged, while also exploring the balance between whole-class instruction and effective use of ability groups within teaching.
3. The My Letters and Sounds Resources and Teaching Sequence In this session, you’ll gain a thorough understanding of the six-stage teaching sequence employed in the programme. We’ll explore the resources available in the programme and delve into the importance of incorporating a multi-sensory approach to cater to diverse learning styles. Importantly, we will discuss how ongoing assessment can help to monitor pupil progress and tailor instruction.
4. Implementing My Letters and Sounds in Your School This session provides you with the tools to bring the programme to life, focusing on a whole school approach while highlighting the role of the phonics lead. We’ll delve into the process of delivering a captivating My Letters and Sounds phonics lesson, including how to effectively use decodable readers to support pupil learning. We’ll also address assessment strategies within the programme and provide practical strategies for supporting children at risk of falling behind.
Training package
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In-person
Online
Full day (four sessions)
£720
£600
Half-day (two sessions)
£400
£300
Twilight (one session)
£250
£200
Bespoke
POA
POA
Find out more at www.schofieldandsims.co.uk/mylettersandsounds
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Support for parents and other adults Listening to children read is an essential part of phonics and one that requires cooperation from parents and carers. Children will regularly bring home a decodable reader to practice but some adults may be unfamiliar with systematic phonics, which is why My Letters and Sounds provides guidance throughout the programme. The inside covers of every reader include tips and activities to help adults as they listen to the children read. Child-friendly definitions are provided for unfamiliar words that can be discussed and explored prior to reading. Suggested questions about the cover illustration and book title help to stimulate learning, while comprehension questions encourage children to talk about the story after they have finished reading. The GPCs and tricky words included in each book are listed.
Questions about the cover illustration and title introduce the text.
Comprehension questions check children’s understanding of the text.
Child-friendly definitions are provided for any unfamiliar vocabulary.
Additional tips for reading with children can be downloaded from the Schofield & Sims website.
To order call 01484 607080 or email sales@schofieldandsims.co.uk
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Only
£3.00
Discounts for schools My Letters and Sounds is an affordable phonics programme, with reduced school prices available across the scheme. Mix and match in any combination or buy as a complete package. Product
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RRP
School price
£150.00
£100.00
Phonics Pupil Practice Book
£4.95
£4.00
Decodable Phonics Reader
£3.95
£3.00
Classroom Kit
£480.00
£300.00
e-reader library subscription
£450.00
£240.00
Teacher’s Handbook
Phonics Training
Typical single form entry Reception package
From £200.00
Typical single form entry Year 1 package
£2,420.00
£1,520.00
• One Teacher’s Handbook • Six sets of 85 Readers • 35 sets of four Phonics Pupil Practice Books • One Classroom Kit
• One Teacher’s Handbook • Six sets of 35 Readers • 35 sets of four Phonics Pupil Practice Books • One Classroom Kit
RRP £3,337.50
RRP £2,152.50
Place your order by phone: 01484 607080 email: sales@schofieldandsims.co.uk or online: www.schofieldandsims.co.uk/mylettersandsounds MLSLEAF
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