Our Unique Teaching Program Learning Letters and Beginning Sounds

How do we have such success in teaching children their letters and sounds?

At ED Specially 4U we are very proud of the success we achieve in teaching our students their letters.  Why is our program so successful?

At ED Specially 4U we offer our student's instruction following current 'BEST PRACTICE' teaching methods.

We use a multi-sensory approach to teach important concepts that allows learning to be appropriate for all students and their individual needs.

PHONICS

As we have detailed in our blog on 19th October, 2014 - Reading and Phonics - the ED Specially 4U way

http://edspecially4u.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/reading-and-phonics-ed-specially-4u-way.html
we teach letters and their sounds explicitly.  This blog describes how we introduce the letters using the Letter Star resource, as well as individual readers, hands-on learning activities including fun ways of achieving letter formation and craft activities.  Learning through these explicit and hands-on activities achieves great success for our students.

Once we have taught the letters and their sounds explicitly, we then use the ED Specially 4U Initial Sound games to reinforce and challenge these skills for our students.
WE MAKE LEARNING FUN

THE MOST IMPORTANT REASON THAT WE ARE UNIQUE 

The importance of continuing the learning with our custom made resources, allows our students to reinforce the sounds with the same unique ED Specially 4U graphic and colour system.  The graphic and colour system means that children have additional ways to remember the letters and their sounds - which makes learning easier at this early stage.  These graphics and colours can later be removed and other 'standard' resources can be used to reinforce the letters and their sounds. 

ED BINGO 

 

 

 Letters are reinforced using the graphics taught in the LETTER STAR resource.  This resource contains 3 FUN games in 1.  Match lower case letters to the same letter on the bingo card, match graphics that start with the lower case letter on the bingo card, or match the upper case letter to the bingo card lower case letter

ED's OLD MAID

 Following the normal rules for Old Maid, you need to match pairs - letter to graphic card, look out for the ED cards to make it even more fun

Letter BINGO

 Match the starting sound with each graphic on the bingo card to be the winner

Letter MATCH IT

 A matching game with a twist.  Fill up the 3 squares beside each letter with graphic cards that start with that letter sound

MEMORY MATCH IN SMALL GROUPS OR WHOLE CLASS GROUPS

 Memory match is always so much fun.  These cards come with coloured backgrounds to reinforce the learning, or white backgrounds to ensure that the student has learnt the sound

Sorting Sounds

 Sort the graphics to match the sound mats

Letter Jump

 Letter jump is so versatile that it is used regularly in our program.  Students jump on the letter, and state it's name, sound and/or a word that starts with that sound.  Combining movement also ensures deeper understanding of the task

All resources are available at www.edspecially4u.com.au

Resources are also available in PDF

 

Letter Sounds are taught as are all activities at ED Specially 4U - 

For the Love of Learning

Donna