Age 2 - 5 In order to read and write confidently children need to develop a wide range of skills in their early years. Phonic knowledge is an important part of this. Learning the letter shapes, and the sounds they make in words, helps children to become confident and secure readers. Friendly letter characters provide visual memory clues for children - so they'll learn and retain letter shape and sound correspondences quickly and securely.Used in thousands of schools, Letterland books are endorsed by experts, trusted by teachers and loved by children across the world. 下載最新的時間表 Stage 1 Age : 2 & above Duration : 1 hour Number of Classes : 24 lessons (including 4 assessments) Focus: - Letter sound - Blending & segmenting - Listening - Be able to read (pork, sugar, umbrella...) The preliminary level of phonics. We will be focusing on children acquiring the correct pronunciations, spelling, letter sounds and handwriting, which aids in the recognition of the relationships between letters and the combination of letters and sounds. Children will also use blocks to build different letters to strengthen their memories and enjoyment towards learning.             Stage 2 Age : 3 & above Duration : 1 hour Number of Classes : 24 lessons (including 4 assessments) Focus: - Listening & writing - Initial, medial & ending sounds - Be able to read (e.g. thunder, camera, luggage, family...) Stage 2 concentrates on digraphs and trigraphs. Children will start to read short stories and dictate simple words. Why should parents pick letterland phonics for their children? - Letterland Increases Brain Activity from Dr. Molfese “The value of mnemonics for teaching letter-sound relations to kindergartners is supported by evidence. In a study by Ehri, Deffner, and Wilce (1984), children were shown letters drawn to assume the shape of a familiar object, for example, s drawn as a snake, h drawn as a house (with a chimney). Memory for the letter-sound relations was mediated by the name of the object. Children were taught to look at the letter, be reminded of the object, say its name, and isolate the first sound of the name to identify the sound (i.e., s - snake - /s/). With practice they were able to look at the letters and promptly say their sounds. Children who were taught letters in this way learned them better than children who were taught letters by rehearsing the relations with pictures unrelated to the letter shapes (e.g. house drawn with a flat roof and no chimney) and also better than children who simply rehearsed the associations without any pictures. Application of this principle can be found in Letterland (Wendon, 1992)… In this program, all the letters are animate characters that assume the shape of the letters and have names prompting the relevant sound, for example, Sammy Snake, Hairy Hat Man, Fireman Fred, Annie Apple. The task of learning the shapes and sounds of all the alphabet letters is difficult and time-consuming, particularly for children who come to school knowing none. The relations are arbitrary and meaningless. Techniques to speed up the learning process are valuable in helping kindergartners prepare for formal reading instruction. THE US NATIONAL READING PANEL REPORT Chapter 2, Part II: Phonics Instructions, (2000), p2-125 For more info please visit Letterland offical website     Back to Courses