Now you can make phonics fast and fun with this FREE sample lesson.

It’s packed full of teaching ideas and contains everything

you need to teach the letters ‘c’, ‘h’ and later the digraph ‘ch’.

What’s more, there are FREE songs online too!

Lesson Plan: c, h, ch

Picture Code Cards: c, h, ch

Blends & Digraphs

Copymaster: ch

Word Bank Copymaster

Letterland Word Book: ch

Handwriting Songs: c, h

Blends & Digraphs Song: ch

Alphabet proficiency

Word building

Onsets & rimes

Blends & digraphs

Advanced spellings

Word endings

Clever CatLearning Objective:

recognise the hard ‘c’ sound andlower-case ‘c’ shape.

Letter soundl Show the children a picture ofClever Cat who lives in Letterland.Talk about cats and ask what catsusually like to eat. Expand the con-versation, explaining that CleverCat is a very special cat becauseshe loves to eat anything thatbegins with her sound ‘c…’ Let thechildren suggest some foods. They'llknow they are right if they canhear her little ‘c…’ sound at thestart (for example, carrots, crack-ers, crisps, cucumbers, cabbage,coleslaw, cream cake and cocoa).Which word could they add theword ‘crunchy’ to? Say them alltogether: ‘crunchy carrots,crunchy…..’ so they feel the alliteration in their mouths.

l Practise saying the ‘c’ sound withthe action. Stroke imaginary cat’swhiskers.

Letter shapeExplain that Clever Cat likes us tostroke her but she needs us to do itin a very special way, going aroundher very own letter. Demonstrateit, using the Clever Cat handwritingsong:Curve round Clever Cat’s face to begin.Then gently tickle her under her chin.

Visit www.letterland.com/songs.html to download thesong.

ActivitiesClever Cat MasksHelp the children tomake their own CleverCat face masks. Askthem to paint CleverCat’s face on the back of

a paper plate. Add pipe-cleaners for whiskers.Cut holes for theeyes and add elastic,string or tape ties.

Harry Hat Man

Learning Objective:recognise the letter sound ‘hhh’and lower case letter shape ‘h’.

Letter soundl Show a pictureof Harry HatMan and talkabout him. Hehas a veryhhhairy hhhat.He always

wears it onhis hhhead

and he nevergoes anywhere without it. Explainthat Harry hates noise so he neverspeaks above a whisper when hegoes into a word. He just says,hhh. In fact, loud noises give him ahhhorrible hhheadache! l Find words beginning withHarry’s sound: foods, sports,games, and objects. Link them toHarry Hat Man.l Practise theHat Man’ssoundtogetherwith theaction.

Letter shapeTeach the letter shape by chantingor singing this handwriting verse:Hurry from the Hat Man’s headdown to his heel on the ground.Go up and bend his knee over,so he’ll hop while he makes his sound.

Visit www.letterland.com/songs.html to download the song.

Activities Body PartsDiscover the body parts that startwith Harry Hat Man’s sound (head,hips, heels, heart, hair, hands).Play a game, saying them andtouching them in a given order,emphasising each ‘hhh’ sound asyou go.

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For further Clever Cat material, see also the Early

Years Sample Lesson.

Learning with LetterlandThe Letterland Teacher’s Guide covers 44 sounds and theirmajor recurring spelling patterns. It includes a Phonemic AwarenessFast Track allowing you to teach a-z in just a few weeks, andquickly go on to teach blends, digraphs and word buildingskills.

This sample lesson is based on the some Letterland teaching techniques in the guide. It shows how the storylogic builds to create a child-friendly way to learn phonics.

Action

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The ch digraphLearning Objective: recognise and use

the ‘ch’ digraph. Introduce children to the ‘ch’ digraph by showing thePicture Code Card and telling the following short story;

Clever Cat belongs to Harry Hat Man. He looks after herwell and she loves him. But she has one problem. As soon asshe finds herself next to him in a word, his hairy hat makesher nose tickle. So whenever they come together in a word,all you can hear is her sneezing sound, ‘ch…’! Practise a polite, stifled sneeze, not a loud‘chuh!’ or ‘achoo’!

Sing or chant the ‘ch’ song:The cat belongs to the Hat Man. He lets her go where she pleases.But when she sits down beside him, she almost always sneezes. Ch. Ch. Ch!

Visit www.letterland.com/songs.html to download the song.

Read out this list of words paus-ing after each one so childrencan repeat the ch sound andmake the action.chance, chant, cheese, chip, chin, chop, chunk.

Activities The 'ch' gameYou will need: Clever Cat masks(see previous page); hairy hats(optional). What to do:l Divide the class into two groups: Cats

and Hat Men.l Each group moves about making

their single letter sound until asignal from you tells the Cats

and Hat Men to pair up.l On pairing up all the cats fill theroom with ‘ch’ sounds.

l Change roles, and repeat.

Copymasters & Word Bookl Samples are provided for furtherreinforcment of the ‘ch’ sound.

Softwarel Letterland

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Harness both gross and finemotor skills by air-tracingenlarged letter images on awhiteboard or Code Cards.

Link phonics teaching to thethings that children love, suchas social activities, movement,arts, crafts, drama and music.

Provide multi-sensory mem-ory clues for letter sounds byteaching the Letterland actionfor each one.

Develop a display areawhere children can collect andsort items beginning with theletter sounds and relate themthematically to the Letterlandcharacters being studied.

. Ask children to find letter-shapes outside the school onbig cereal packets, newspapersand magazines, to help make agroup collage at school.

The rollercoastertrick

Use this multi-sensory trick tohelp children move on from just sayingthe single sounds to blending soundstogether to make words.l Write a regular word on the boardbut don’t read it aloud.l Draw a rollercoaster shape on theboard underneath it.l Next, write the letters on the roller-coaster at the top, middle and bottom.l Finger-trace the rollercoaster line asyou all say each sound.l Repeat, picking up speed as you gountil you are finally blending the word

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Pre­cursive Picture Code Cards

Sample ch card

Sample Page 2, Blends & Digraphs Copymasters © Letterland International Ltd 2010. LETTERLAND® is a registered trademark of Lyn Wendon

Blends and DigraphsCopymasters

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Word Bank Copymasters

Word Book: pack of 10

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Sample ch page for children to use a personal dictionary. Letterland Word Book Sample page of Letterland Word Bank Copymasters (50% size reduction)

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Designed by Daniel Griffiths. Published 2007 by Letterland International Barton, Cambridge, CB23 7AY, UKFirst published 2007. This edition published 2010. © Letterland International Ltd 2010. LETTERLAND® is a registered trademark of Lyn Wendon

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Recommended ResourcesA selection of highly recommendedtitles that will help you get the most

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Letterland Teacher's GuideTG9781862092594

Word bank CopymastersT179781862092495

Vocabulary CardsVC9781862092686

Living ABC(Software)T709781862093591

Alphabet Songs (CD)T239781862091979

Beyond ABC (Softback)T999781862093980

ABC (Softback)ABC SB9781862092228

Blends & Digraphs Songs (CD)T259781862091955

Word book (Pack of 10)T199781862092518

StraightPicture Code CardsT299781862091993

Workbooks (1­4)T059781862092372

Handwriting Songs (CD)T249781862091962

Blends & Digraphs CopymastersT459781862092990

First Reading FlashcardsFC019781862092273

Class Alphabet PosterT309781862092563

SecondReading FlashcardsFC029781862092280

ActionTricks PosterT229781862092549

Living Code CardsT809781862093713

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