Author(s): Sue Reed

Phonics Resources

Collins Big Cat Song of Sounds is a hands-on systematic synthetic phonics programme that meets the learning needs of your whole class - and puts the fun back into phonics.

Song of Sounds has a song at its heart that teaches children all of the phonemes necessary to read and write English successfully.

Stage 1 for Reception contains 30 weeks of instruction. Each week has four short daily sessions and a longer consolidation session at the end of the week to put phonic skills into practice.

A resource CD contains software presentations to use throughout plus printable resources for the activities.

The Song of Sounds Stage 1 Reception Pack contains:

- Audio CD

- Teacher's Handbook

- Resource CD

- Flashcards

- Green words and sentence cards

- Tricky word cards

- Phoneme stars

- Phoneme finder sheet

- Lotto game

- Classroom frieze

- Picture cards