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Essential Letters and Sounds: Essential Phonic Readers: Oxford Reading Level 5: I Am Like an Elephant!

Essential Letters and Sounds: Essential Phonic Readers: Oxford Reading Level 5: I Am Like an Elephant!

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The book I Am Like an Elephant! is a fully decodable reader that aligns with the phonics progression of Essential Letters and Sounds, allowing children to consolidate their phonic knowledge through reading in context.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 24 pages
Publication date: 10 November 2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press


Engaging fiction and non-fiction, meticulously aligned to each week of Essential Letters and Sounds, empower children to solidify their phonemic understanding through contextual reading. These fully decodable readers are meticulously matched to the phonetic progression of Essential Letters and Sounds, ensuring a seamless and effective learning experience. Essential Letters and Sounds stands as a rigorous and systematic synthetic phonics program, validated by the esteemed Department for Education. These readers seamlessly complement your existing decodable readers from Oxford University Press, fostering a comprehensive and supportive teaching approach for Essential Letters and Sounds.

I Am Like an Elephant! is a captivating book that empowers children to apply their phonics learning acquired in Year 1, Autumn 1, Week 6 of Essential Letters and Sounds. Through this engaging narrative, children are encouraged to reinforce and reinforce their phonemic skills, fostering a strong foundation for reading and writing proficiency.

By incorporating these fully decodable readers into your teaching curriculum, you provide your students with the tools they need to succeed. The carefully curated content and systematic phonetic progression ensure that children build upon their knowledge and develop a deep understanding of letter sounds and their corresponding spellings. The engaging stories and relatable characters further enhance the reading experience, making it enjoyable and motivating for children to engage with and learn from.

In addition to their educational value, these readers also contribute to the development of children's language and literacy skills. Through contextual reading, children are exposed to a wide range of vocabulary, sentence structures, and grammatical patterns, which help them to expand their language comprehension and communication abilities. The inclusion of visual aids, such as pictures and illustrations, further supports the learning process and aids in visualizing the letter sounds and their relationships.

Moreover, these readers are perfectly aligned with the Essential Letters and Sounds program, which is widely recognized and endorsed by educators. The program's systematic approach to phonics teaching has been proven to improve children's reading and writing skills, and these readers provide a valuable supplement to support the teaching and learning of Essential Letters and Sounds.

In conclusion, I Am Like an Elephant! is a must-have book for educators who want to enhance their students' phonemic understanding and literacy skills. By providing engaging fiction and non-fiction, meticulously aligned to each week of Essential Letters and Sounds, these readers offer a comprehensive and effective learning experience. The fully decodable nature of the books ensures that children can independently practice their phonics skills, while the engaging content and systematic phonetic progression foster a love for reading and a lifelong passion for learning.

Weight: 80g
Dimension: 218 x 194 x 2 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781382038164
Edition number: 1

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