About this title.

Essential Phonics: Initial Sounds provides a fully comprehensive resource to support any phonics teaching programme, either as a single resource or a teaching support. Initial sounds provides the teacher with an amazing selection of contemporary print, digital and interactive resources to excite, motivate and inform young minds. The digital and interactive resources can be used on Macs, PCs and/or interactive whiteboards.

Fits with NZ Literacy Progressions: Reading; in first year at school to acquire basci reading skills and knowledge of letters and sounds. Writing; in first year at school 1) developing knowledge of grapheme relationships which enables them to understand words are made up of sounds and that sounds are written with letters. 2) write all consonant sounds, and represent some vowel sounds in at least one way; 3) attempt to record the sounds wihin a word in sequence. After 1 year reading; when reading repsonding to and thinking critically about texts; draw on knowledge and skills...

NZ Curriculum links: English Level 1 eg associates sounds with letters

Key principles of Initial Sounds

- identifies difference between letter sounds and names

- repetition of keywords, phrases and clauses

- identifies letter sounds in context

- includes common sight words

- uses simple sentence structures

- employs natural language

- moves from context to analysis to synthesis

The full package includes:
26 digital big books
52 interactive activities
1 initial sounds poster
26 initial sounds songs
26 digital initial sound cards
26 initial sound cards
52 blackline masters (digital and print)
26 detailed teacher notes
26 laminated A3 posters

Go to View Inside below to view the movie file (8MB).

Ages 5-7 years.

Price includes product and unlimited school licence