My Letters and Sounds Year 1 Teacher’s Handbook

Schofield & Sims My Letters and Sounds is a comprehensive programme for teaching systematic synthetic phonics.

The My Letters and Sounds Year 1 Teacher’s Handbook is the essential companion for your daily phonics teaching. Based on a more robust and fully resourced version of the well-known Letters and Sounds progression, the Handbook provides a high level of support, both for teachers that are new to phonics teaching and for more experienced practitioners looking for planning that matches the latest best practice.

The Year 1 Teacher’s Handbook contains:

• an extended introduction that explains the pedagogy behind My Letters and Sounds in accessible language
• detailed teaching guidance that breaks down each Phase’s developmental processes and provides banks of activity ideas for practising new skills
• classroom-ready lesson plans that translate each week of the programme into concise and effective daily phonics sessions
• time-saving photocopiable resources, for use within the phonics session or for extra reinforcement.

Detailed information on when new phonics content and skills is taught in My Letters and Sounds Phases Two to Five can be found in the My Letters and Sounds Progression Chart.

A wide range of free online resources is also available from the Schofield & Sims website.