This course is designed befitting the age group 4 to 5 years old. The course is intended to teach the 42 sounds of English introduced through stories, actions and songs, along with their formation. With this code knowledge, they are taken through stages of blending sounds together to read words and identifying individual sounds in words to spell them.

Contents of the Programme

• Introduction of 42 letter sounds-stories, actions and songs
• Letter formation of 42 sounds-prewriting skills and writing skills
• Building phonological and phonemic awareness
• Concept of vowels and consonants
• Consonant blends
• Teaching blending to read words
• Teaching segmenting to spell words
• Dictation of words
• Tricky words-reading and spelling
• Difference between letter names and letter sounds
• Reading words, phrases and sentences
• Reading decodable readers and books
• Reinforcement of letter sounds using literacy games and activities
• Periodic assessment and review