Letterland Canada

Meet The Characters

Meet a few of the Letterland Characters! They are all carefully designed to explain the shapes, sounds, and the orientation of letters in a child-friendly way.

There are characters and stories to explain the lower case alphabet shapes, upper case shapes, blends and digraphs .

Lower Case Letter Shapes

Here are a few of the alphabet characters. Roll your mouse over the character to see how their body parts form the letter shape.

Upper Case Letter Shapes

In Letterland there are always simple stories to help children link the lower case and the upper case letter shapes. In many instances the story is as follows:

"Whenever I get a chance to start an important word or start a sentence, I take a deep breath and get bigger. That way, everyone will notice me."

Whenever the lower and upper case letters have completely different shapes, Letterland provides children with a reason.

For example, in the case of Eddy Elephant, whenever he has the important job of starting a name or a sentence he is so excited he does his 'elephant on end' trick. He sits down and points everything in the Reading Direction.

Digraphs

In Letterland there are stories to explain the changes in sound when letter are put together to form digraphs.

Take the Letterland 'ch' story as an example. The following story is used to explain why 'c' and 'h' make a new joint sound in words like chin and church.

Clever Cat belongs to Harry Hat Man. He looks after her well and she loves him. But she has one problem. As soon as she finds herself next to him in a word, his hairy hat makes her nose tickle. So whenever they come together in a word, all you can hear is her sneezing sound, 'ch...'!

Scope

There are phonic stories for all the major recurring spelling patterns in the English language.

Early Years Phonemic awareness A-Z and a-z shapes and sounds Language development	LETTERLAND CHARACTERS LETTER SHAPES & SOUNDS	a-z
	CAPITALS	A-Z
	LONG VOWELS	a, e, i, o, u
Primary Years Alphabet proficiency Word building Onsets & rimes Beginnings, middles and endings Blends & digraphs Advanced spelling	FAST TRACK	a-z
	BEGINNINGS, MIDDLES & ENDINGS	a, e, i, o, u sh, th, ch -nk, -ng -ff, -ll, -ss
	CONSONANT BLENDS DIGRAPHS	bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl, br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr, sc, sk, sp, st, sm, sn, sw, scr, spl, spr, squ, str, shr, thr
	LONG VOWELS	a-e, ai, ay, e-e, ee, ea, i-e, ie, y, igh, o-e, oa, o¯w, u-e, o¯o, ew, ue,
	VOWEL DIGRAPHS	ar, or, ow, ou, oy, oi, er, ur, ir, oo, u, aw, au
	TRIGRAPHS AND ADVANCED PHONEMES	air, ear
Advanced Word building Advanced spelling patterns Irregular vowels, more digraphs and trigraphs	MORE ADVANCED PHONEMES
	a (as in America/father) all/al (as in all/always) are (as in scare) al/el (as in musical/angel) ce/ci/cy (soft c stories) ch (as in school) ed/ing (Magic sounds) e (Silent letter) e (as in they) ea (as in head) ear (as in bear) ei (in receive/height/eight) en/est (Magic endings) er (Sometimes Magic) ere (in here/there/where) ey (as in donkey) full/ful (as in useful) dge/ge/gi/gy (soft g stories) gh (as in bought/laugh) ie (as in lie/field)	k (the ‘k’ sound) kn (as in knee) le (as in table) able/ible (suffixes) ly (as in lovely) less/ness (suffixes) mb/mn (as in thumb/Autumn) o (as in love/one/who) ous (as in famous) ph (as in photograph) que (as in antique) tion (as in action) ture (as in picture) wh (as in when/who) wr (as in write) y (as in very/bicycle) y to i (as in cry/cries) y (Sometimes Magic)

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