I am a parent partnership coach, helping education and health professionals to evaluate and build these important partnerships. With regards to reading and, in particular, phonics, I would like to tell you of the excellent partnership work that I have observed in school nursery classes and daycare nurseries that use 'Letterland' as a pre-reading scheme.
This is a phonics programme that is character based. Each letter of the alphabet has a name that matches the sound which that letter makes, for example 'Bouncy Ben', and each character picture includes the relevant alphabet letter. It is easy to develop stories and actions about the different characters and to involve everyone in activities such as singing, drawing and role play that can be based on the characters.
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