What is Letterland?
Letterland is a child-friendly, multi-modal system for teaching children to read, write and spell. The secret of its worldwide success lies in its pictogram characters and their ability to make learning fun!
Set in a delightful place called Letterland these pictograms are a careful fusion of letters and animated characters. These simple powerful images contain the basic phonic information that children need for accessing print. At a more advanced level, stories about their interactions provide logical reasons for all the essential recurring spelling patterns in the English language.
Learning Modalities
The Letterland pictograms activate every learning channel, linking all the things that children love - social interaction, movement, art, craft, drama, rhyme, - directly to letter knowledge. The children can even sing about how to form each letter shape. The songs relate letter shape to body parts. The Handwriting Songs Cassettes/CD's make it easy for teachers to introduce this activity.
Literacy Skills
Like us, Letterland characters have personalities, friends, homes and hobbies.
Letterland provides a realistic parallel world which bridges the gap between abstract print and real world - creating a secure learning environment where children can happily develop cognitive, language and literacy skills including:
- Phonemic Awareness
- Alliteration & Symbol/Sound Links
- Letter Formation
- Blending & Segmenting
- Word & Sentence Building
- Vocabulary & Language
- Imaginative Play & Creative Writing
Letterland Products
The product range includes: Teacher's Guides, Software, Workbooks, Songs Cassettes/ CDs, Picture Code Cards, Videos, Story Books, Wall Friezes, Games and much more.
More Information for Teachers
If you would like to find out more about the teaching techniques adopted in Letterland please visit the pages for Teachers.
More Information for Parents
If you would like to find out what you can do to support your child with Letterland, please visit the pages for Parents.