Guide your learners as they progress in their early reading and writing journey with this structured teaching resource filled with engaging activities designed to advance literacy skills. Created by early education experts, it provides clear guidance to support you in teaching phonics and handwriting skills, including blending and segmenting sounds in words and introducing early joining techniques. Activities are designed to support both first and second language learners and include step-by-step guidance to help you teach with confidence. Includes access to our engaging digital platform that helps keep learning focused and fun with interactive activities, handwriting animations and pronunciation videos.

Features

• Structured phonics and handwriting activities, including recognising tricky words, applying knowledge of vowel digraphs to read and spell words, and developing early joining skills.
• Activities that are adaptable to your context and include support and challenge options to cater to different learning needs.
• Hands-on teaching ideas to develop proper letter joining in a fun and interactive way.
• Catchy rhymes, songs and stories for front-of-class teaching that make learning enjoyable and memorable.
• Home link suggestions and activities that encourage parents/carers to support their child\’s literacy development.
• Additional resources such as downloadable handwriting and activity sheets, letter formation animations, digital letter-sound flashcards for front-of-class teaching, accessed via Cambridge GO.
• Supports schools following our Cambridge Early Years, Primary English and Primary English as a Second Language curricula.
• This publication is still in development, so the accessibility information is currently unknown. We aim for our publications to meet WCAG 2.2 AA. An updated accessibility summary will be provided once available.