Letterland

WHAT?

Letterland is a unique, phonics-based approach to teaching reading, writing and spelling to children. The Letterland characters transform letters into child-friendly pictograms that all live in an imaginary place called Letterland.

Simple stories about the Letterland characters, explain the full range of dry phonics facts so that children are motivated to listen, to think and to learn. These stories explain letter sounds & shapes, allowing children to progress quickly to word building, reading and writing.

The Steps to learning are:

1.Letter sounds

Once you have met the friendly Letterland characters, just start to say their names for the correct letter sound.

2. Letter shapes

Simple stories about the Letterland characters ensure correct letter formation, avoiding confusion over similar looking letters.

3.Action tricks

Actions for the alphabet are linked to each character, forging a strong connection between the action, letter shape and sound.

4.Word building

Blending & segmenting all through words is introduced very early on, covering blends, digraphs and trigraphs.

5.Advanced spelling

Phonics stories give children a friendly logic for remembering all 44 letter sounds and their major spellings.

6.Multi-sensory learning

Letterland activates every learning channel through music, actions, movement, song, art, craft, games and role-play.

WHY?

In accordance witht the curriciulum we are working with goals here regarding reading and writing, verbal communication as well as preparing them for the future. These are all important motivators for teaching the children about the subjects that Letterland does.

HOW?

We will be using the materials available to us in the preschool as we all as making our own activites and mixing Letterland with other work we do regarding language. We will also be complimenting this program with other work because we want the children to work on their Swedish too. Every month or so we will introduce a new letter to work with and incorporate that letter in our every day work. We will also be working on spelling as well as rhymes.

MATERIALS

Letterland box/materials from the preschool

Letterland on YouTube (see here: https://www.youtube.com/user/LetterlandMedia/videos )

Letterland on Spotify (see here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/74cZN38bsWxi9kbZCfkZNQ?autoplay=true )

Letterland Activity Bank:http://files.letterland.com/pdf/covid-19/Letterland_Activity-Bank.pdf

Teacher-planned activities based on the children's interests

Books in both Swedish and English and adding a Swedish alphabet

Bokstavshissen (see here:  https://urplay.se/program/207696-bokstavshissen-x )

Radioapans alfabet (see here: https://sverigesradio.se/radioapansalfabet )

Resources from the Letterland website (see here:https://www.letterland.com/downloads-and-free-resources ) 

We encourage you to work with these things at home as well and especially to read for your child. Research has shown that children who are read to and who have a lot of conversations at home develop a bigger vocabulary than those who do no so we would really encourage this.

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,
• förmåga att skapa samt förmåga att uttrycka och kommunicera upplevelser, tankar och erfarenheter i olika uttrycksformer som bild, form, drama, rörelse, sång, musik och dans,
• både det svenska språket och sitt modersmål, om barnet har ett annat modersmål än svenska,
• utmanas och stimuleras i sin utveckling av språk­ och kommunikation samt matematik, naturvetenskap och teknik, och,
• både det svenska språket och det egna nationella minoritetsspråket, om barnet tillhör en nationell minoritet,
• svenskt teckenspråk, om barnet har hörselnedsättning, är dövt eller av andra skäl har behov av teckenspråk,
• får använda digitala verktyg på ett sätt som stimulerar utveckling och lärande.