Song of Sounds Stage 0 ISBN: 9780008366940

Collins Big Cat Song of Sounds is a hands-on systematic synthetic phonics programme that meets the learning needs of your whole group – and puts the fun back into phonics. Ensure your children are school-ready with Song of Sounds! Song of Sounds is a child-focused phonics pack that has a song at its heart. The song teaches children all the phonemes necessary to read and write English successfully, ensuring there is a consistency of approach across the school. Stage 0 for pre-school children introduces the sounds of the alphabet through fun, age-appropriate games and activities that take no more than 5–10 minutes a day. The teacher handbook is split into three clear sections: Part One: falls within the Communication and Language area of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum. It focuses on developing children’s speaking and listening skills and language comprehension through varied adult-led activities, rhymes, stories, poems and drama activities. Part Two: marks the beginning of explicit phonics teaching, in which the children, once they are ready, begin to learn their 26 letter sounds (phonemes). Part Three: is aimed at providing practitioners with ideas of how to implement phonics activities within the different areas of their setting. The Song of Sounds Stage 0 Nursery Pack contains: - Resource CD, including audio of the song - Teacher Handbook - Flashcards - Green word cards - Phoneme stars - Phoneme finder sheet - Lotto game - Pairs game - Classroom frieze - Picture cards