
Product Description Collins Big Cat Song of Sounds is a hands-on systematic synthetic phonics program that meets the learning needs of your whole group – and puts the fun back into phonics.Ensure your children are school-ready with Song of Sounds!Song of Sounds is a child-focused phonics pack that has a song at its heart. The song teaches children all the phonemes necessary to read and write English successfully, ensuring there is a consistency of approach across the school.Stage 0 for pre-school children introduces the sounds of the alphabet through fun, age-appropriate games and activities that take no more than 5–10 minutes a day. The teacher handbook is split into three clear sections: Part One: falls within the Communication and Language area of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum. It focuses on developing children’s speaking and listening skills and language comprehension through varied adult-led activities, rhymes, stories, poems and drama activities. Part Two: marks the beginning of explicit phonics teaching, in which the children, once they are ready, begin to learn their 26 letter sounds (phonemes). Part Three: is aimed at providing practitioners with ideas of how to implement phonics activities within the different areas of their setting. The Song of Sounds Stage 0 Nursery Pack contains:- Resource CD, including audio of the song - Teacher Handbook - Flashcards - Green word cards - Phoneme stars - Phoneme finder sheet - Lotto game - Pairs game - Classroom frieze - Picture cards About the Author Liz Webster and Sue Reed are Headteacher and Deputy Head at Aldingbourne Primary School in West Sussex in the UK.Sue and Liz have a vast range of teaching experience, having taught all primary ages. They are both Foundation Stage specialists and Sue currently teaches full-time in the Reception class. They developed Song of Sounds over the last 10 years to ensure the children get the best possible start to their reading and writing journey, leaving reception and Year 1 classes with a firm grip on phonics.
Page Count:
288
Publication Date:
2020-06-01
ISBN-10:
0008366942
ISBN-13:
9780008366940
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