What is Letterland?
What is Letterland? Letterland is a unique, phonics-based approach to teaching reading, writing and spelling to 3-8 year olds. Its informationrich Letterland characters transform plain black letter shapes into child-friendly pictograms characters who live in an imaginary place called Letterland. By translating the full range of dry phonic facts into engaging stories, children are motivated to listen, to think and to learn. These stories explain letter shapes and sounds and quickly develop into word building, reading and writing.
How does it work? Letter Sounds Letterland uses a synthetic phonics approach (synthesising sounds into words) in a multisensory way that fires children's imaginations and uses their multiple intelligences. It's more fun and much easier to remember that “Harry Hat Man whispers 'hhh' in words because he hates noise”, than the bare fact that 'aitch' makes the sound 'hhh'. Children happily relate to characters like Harry Hat Man, Bouncy Ben, Clever Cat and friends, moving quickly and effectively from learning sounds and blending them to becoming established readers.
Letter Shapes and handwriting Letterland builds-in visual and verbal cues that preserve letter-shape integrity, prompt correct formation, give reasons for capital letters and reduce reversals and confusions between similar letters like b/d, p/q, s/z, n/u, m/w.
Harry Hat Man’s Handwriting Song Hurry from the Hat Man’s head down to his heel on the ground.
When Harry Hat Man starts a name, he is so happy that he does a handstand with his hairy hat on!
Go up and bend his knee over so he’ll hop while he makes his sound.
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