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Letterland is a successful Phonics based system of teaching the English Language with a history of over 25 years in the United Kingdom. The secret of its worldwide success lies in its pictogram characters, set in a delightful place called Letterland. Through story telling, the characters talk about the sounds they make, and why their sounds vary in different context. It provides fun & creative ways to help children learn how to read, write & spell with confidence. It is used by leading pre-schools in Singapore and other parts of the world. 这套著名的语音训练豛程利用逗趣的人物与说故事的手法，让孩童们生动地学习发音、阅读与写字，从而建立起自信心。

Phonemic Awareness
Alliteration & Symbol/sound links
Letter Formation and Handwriting skills
Segmenting & Blending
Word & Sentence Building 
Vocabulary & Language
Imaginative Play and Creative Writing

What is Letterland?

Letterland is a child-friendly, multi-modal system for teaching children to read, write and spell. The secret of its worldwide success lies in its pictogram characters and their ability to make learning fun!

Set in a delightful place called Letterland these pictograms are a careful fusion of letters and animated characters. These simple powerful images contain the basic phonic information that children need for accessing print. At a more advanced level, stories about their interactions provide logical reasons for all the essential recurring spelling patterns in the English language.

Learning Modalities

The Letterland pictograms activate every learning channel, linking all the things that children love - social interaction, movement, art, craft, drama, rhyme, - directly to letter knowledge. The children can even sing about how to form each letter shape. The songs relate letter shape to body parts. The Handwriting Songs Cassettes/CD's make it easy for teachers to introduce this activity.

Literacy Skills

Like us, Letterland characters have personalities, friends, homes and hobbies.
Letterland provides a realistic parallel world which bridges the gap between abstract print and real world - creating a secure learning environment where children can happily develop cognitive, language and literacy skills including:

. Phonemic Awareness
. Alliteration & Symbol/Sound Links
. Letter Formation
. Blending & Segmenting
. Word & Sentence Building
. Vocabulary & Language
. Imaginative Play & Creative Writing

Meet the Letterlanders

Meet a few of the Letterlanders! They are all carefully designed to explain the shapes, sounds, and the orientation of letters in a child-friendly way.

There are characters and stories to explain the lower case alphabet shapes, upper case shapes, blends and digraphs .

Upper Case Letter Shapes

In Letterland there are always simple stories to help children link the lower case and the upper case letter shapes. In many instances the story is as follows:
"Whenever I get a chance to start an important word or start a sentence, I take a deep breath and get bigger. That way, everyone will notice me."

Whenever the lower and upper case letters have completely different shapes, Letterland provides children with a reason.

For example, in the case of Eddy Elephant, whenever he has the important job of starting a name or a sentence he is so excited he does his 'elephant on end' trick. He sits down and points everything in the Reading Direction. Digraphs

In Letterland there are stories (phonic fables) to explain the changes in sound when letter are put together to form digraphs.

Take the Letterland ‘ch’ story as an example. The following story is used to explain why ‘c’ and ‘h’ make a new joint sound in words like chin and church.

Clever Cat belongs to Harry Hat Man. He looks after her well and she loves him. But she has one problem. As soon as she finds herself next to him in a word, his hairy hat makes her nose tickle. So whenever they come together in a word, all you can hear is her sneezing sound, ‘ch…'!

Scope of the course
 

Star Tots Phonics Programme