Resources to teach letters / sounds to nursery age child?

[Greythorne]

Before I get accused of hothousing, let me say that we live in France, so the DC do not have access to nursery where they would make a start on learning phonic sounds - grapheme correspndances.

With my DD1, we used Letterland (the story books and the big alphabet book ) which worked very well in terms of learning the names of letters. (Although I know Letterland is pretty discredited in terms of learning sounds, I did not know that at the time.)

But then, when she started British school here, she started Jolly Phonics, which was much more useful in terms of learning to read, of course.

So, what do you recommend for a 3 yo to start learning letter sounds?

Is there a basic Jolly Phonics book that is as fun as the Letterland stories?

Here?

bigtilly
i think they are great....but, there are precisely what my 5yo is currently using at her British school classes.

I was looking for something a little more basic, just simple phoneme - grapheme correspondances.

I think the books you have linked to are more about learning to write, read etc.

But thanks, I will investigate further.

I really need the very first Jolly Phonics book, if there is one.

Have a look at the following -both online so you can download anywhere in the world:

Early Years Starter Package; Young-child resources for children aged 3-5, for pre-school settings and parents who want to make an early start with synthetic phonics: www.phonicsinternational.com/Early-Years-Starter-Pack-Intro.html

Teeny Reading Seeds www.phonicsinternational.com/trs.html Free resources for approximately 3-4 yr.olds as they begin to make links between speech sounds and the 26 alphabet letters - both upper and lower case: can be used with the DfE programme Letters & Sounds Phase One

Fab, maverick.
Just the ticket.
Thanks.

Ooo. Was going to ask similar. I think we're prob a step or so behind the OP though.
When learning letters do we teach upper case sounds (aye, bee, sea, etc) or the phonic sound. Don't really want to confuse DD.
Is there a decent book for parents about teaching children to read? The only one I've got is about sight reading words and it doesn't feel very intuitive to me even though that's probably how I learnt.

shipsladyg, don't use letter names, base your teaching on the 44 English sounds (phonemes) and their various spellings.

The book I recommend is, 'Growing a reader from birth' by Diane McGuinness.

Thanks Maverick. Phonics is only about four years old near us and I definitely didn't learn that way do I've got a lot to learn before even integrating it with the kids.