Teacher's Guide - Letterland

© Letterland International Limited. All rights reserved.A Road Map for Step-by-Step Five Day UnitsEach of the 45 Step-by-Step Units includes four Teacher’s Guide pages of information andideas for your teaching and five reproducible pages on the accompanying Teacher’s GuideCD. These pages are explained below. Also on the CD: a set of Word Cards for each Unit.Features of PageOne of Each UnitThe Unit Focustells the phonicskills and otherobjectives ofthe Unit. Otherspecialinformation forteachers is alsoprovided.Diagnostic Words help youdecide if your children areready to move on to the nextUnit. These words are not onthe Students List (A, B or C) forthe week but are included ontheir Unit spelling test tomeasure transfer of skills tonew words.Tricky Words arecommon words in ourlanguage that areirregular or includepatterns not yet taught.In each lesson 1 to 4 areintroduced or reviewed.Selected wordsfrom previousunits are studiedeach week aspart of thecontinuousreview of newwords.The pocket chartshows howchildren will sortthe words basedon phonic soundsand patterns.Tricky Words andStory Words arealso listed.Story Words arewords from theUnit Decodablestory that havepatterns not yettaught. Childrenuse these mainlyin the storycontext.The Unit includes ListA, B and C so that ifyour children needmore practice youcan continue workingon the same skillsfor a second andthird week.Each Unit lists 12 to 14 Letterland PictureCode Cards that you will use for reviewactivities throughout the week.New Spelling Sentencesare practiced during theweek for reading andspelling and included onthe end of the Unitassessments.4