How does Letterland use stories to teach phonic rules?
A. Children love stories and Letterland capitalises on this by introducing the letter characters in magical story format. The phonic stories build on children’s understanding and experience of the world around them and quickly turn the characters into their friends. When the characters interact to make a new sound the children can follow a logic because there’s always a reason the change. For example, Clever Cat belongs to Harry Hat Man and each of them makes a special sound in words. But as soon as she finds herself next to him in a word, his hairy hat makes her nose tickle, so Clever Cat sneezes, and all you can hear is her ‘ch…’ sound.
