Letterland

"Letterland was created to teach phonics using a story-based approach. The story logic engages students leading to long term retention of concepts. What's more, Letterland is wonderfully multi-sensory. It activates every learning channel through music, actions, alliteration, movement, song, art, games and role-play.

1. Meet the Letterlanders

Once you have met the friendly Letterland characters, just start to say their names for the correct letter sound. It's that simple! Annie Apple says, 'a' in words like, 'apple', 'arrow' and 'acrobat'.

2. Learn Letter Sounds

 

Lively songs sung to well-known nursery tunes help with learning all the alphabet sounds. Each Letterlander also has an actions that help reinforce the alphabet sounds. For Annie Apple, bite an imaginary apple

3. Learn Letter Shapes

 

Simple stories about the Letterland characters ensure correct letter formation, avoiding confusion over similar looking letters. The rhyming songs use language and concepts that children already have."

https://www.letterland.com/how-does-it-work

In Kindy, we work with the Letterland program and the characters for each letter of the alphabet. We use the programs material available to us (see above), but we also follow the children’s interests and try to link Letterland to our themes and activities to make it fun and interesting for the children! For example, we learned about letter P during our Pirates theme, and we've been writing our names with sticks we found on our walks in the forest.

Läroplanskopplingar

Läroplan

• ett nyanserat talspråk och ordförråd samt förmåga att leka med ord, berätta, uttrycka tankar, ställa frågor, argumentera och kommunicera med andra i olika sammanhang och med skilda syften,
• intresse för skriftspråk samt förståelse för symboler och hur de används för att förmedla budskap,
• intresse för berättelser, bilder och texter i olika medier, såväl digitala som andra, samt sin förmåga att använda sig av, tolka, ifrågasätta och samtala om dessa,