Annie Apple

The kindergarten teachers at Ballentine Elementary use Letterland to teach phonics in a fun and memorable way. Children love it! They find they are not learning about boring letters, but interesting full-of-life characters that become their special friends. The Letterlanders help students remember each letter’s shape, sound, and direction, and they live in a very special secret place called Letterland!

Helping At Home With Letterland

Support Materials
Letterland has a wide range of materials to help you support your child’s learning. Products include: picture books, storybooks, reading books, activity books, sticker books, puzzles, games, videos, audio, and software. Please take a look at the product section of the Letterland website to find out more about these products and call 1-877-538-8375 or e-mail usinfo@letterland.com if you wish to order.

Miss Schmidt's Recommendations:

LETTERLAND ABC
ADVENTURES SOFTWARE

Item Code: T90

$29.99

LETTERLAND
ABC BOOK

Item Code: ABCSB

$9.99

LETTERLAND ALPHABET ADVENTURES BOOK

Item Code: T11

$9.99

FIRST ALPHABET
ACTIVITY BOOK

Item Code: AB01

$5.95
(Can purchase as a pack with CD)

ALPHABET SONGS CD

Item Code: T23

$14.50
(Can purchase as a pack
with First Activity Book)

LETTERLAND FIRST
READING FLASHCARDS

Item Code: FC01

$10.99

Support Activities
Encourage your child’s learning with activities centered on using Letterland. For example:

	Read to your child.
	Help your child with letter sounds and correct letter formation (All letters except for "d" and "e" start from the top). Click here for a downloadable handbook on correctly making each letter's sound and shape. Click here to download the handout at the bottom of the page from Letterland on each letter's sound.
	Play act and re-tell the Letterland phonic stories together. Make props of the characters (i.e. Harry Hat Man’s Green Hairy Hat!) to dress up in.
	Create arts and crafts together (i.e. collages of the characters in different textured fabrics and finger trace over the letter shape).
	Talk about the Letterlanders, linking them to daily life. Discover, for example, that Clever Cat loves curry, carrots, cabbage and cakes, etc. (any food that begins with her sound).
	Identify letters when you see them in everyday life (stop sign, restaurants, etc).

The possibilities are endless for using Letterland to learn about all sorts of things, so use your imagination and theirs. Children quite often have the best ideas!