Blogs Tagged: My Letters And Sounds

Newly-matched readers for Red Rose Letters and Sounds schools

28 March 2024

Over 100 decodable phonics readers from the My Letters and Sounds phonics readers have been aligned to the Red Rose Letters and Sounds teaching progression, providing schools with a wide choice of fiction and non-fiction stories to use at home and in the classroom.

Save time while teaching phonics with our Classroom Kits

14 December 2023

In 2022, we launched My Letters and Sounds, a systematic synthetic phonics programme to guide teachers through the challenges of teaching phonics from Reception to Year 1. Now, we’re thrilled to introduce the all-new Classroom Kits.

Enhance your phonics library with 10 brand-new readers

15 September 2023

Arriving this autumn, 10 new Phase Two decodable books will provide some much-needed additional coverage of GPCs in the first nine weeks of phonics teaching.

Working with parents and carers on phonics

08 June 2023

Parents and carers play a crucial role in supporting a child’s learning, and evidence from the EEF suggests that effective engagement can make up to three months of positive difference in a child’s learning. In this blog post, phonics trainer Jacqueline Harris discusses ways that schools can leverage this by involving parents and other adults in their children’s phonics learning.

Phonics: how to teach Tricky Words

16 February 2023

Phonics trainer Jacqueline Harris shares her advice on one of the most frequently asked topics in early reading. Learning tricky words, or common exception words as they are sometimes known, relies on memory more than spelling rules, so how do you best support children that struggle with them?

Using technical phonics terms with young children

10 February 2023

In this blog post, phonics trainer Jacqueline Harris explains when and why teachers should use technical language when teaching phonics.

My Letters and Sounds receives DfE approval

23 June 2022

Our brand-new phonics programme, My Letters and Sounds, joins the shortlist of SSP teaching programmes that are approved by the Department for Education.

Instil a love of reading with real phonics stories

10 February 2022

Kasia Reay, author of the Reception Phonics Readers for My Letters and Sounds, explains why choosing books that feel like real stories can be the key to unlocking a true passion for reading.

The new SSP for Letters and Sounds schools

19 January 2022

After almost two years in the making, we are delighted to launch our brand-new systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) programme, Schofield and Sims My Letters and Sounds.

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