Kindergarten Virtual Training

Learn how to use the Letterland Kindergarten Teacher’s Guide, character letter-sound stories, alphabet and handwriting songs, placement and progress monitoring assessments, and all the instructional materials that come with the Letterland program. The session covers:

Prerequisites

• Phonemic Awareness Fast Track
• Aa-Zz sound and shapes
• Blending, segmenting and word building
• Onsets and Rimes
• Digraphs and further spelling patterns.

1. View Lift-off to Letterland Introductory Sessions (30 minute video)

2. Familiarize yourself with the Letterland characters, their sounds & shapes.

3. Download the handouts needed for the sessions.

• Handout 1: Kindergarten Scope & Sequence
• Handout 2: Kindergarten Who's Who in Letterland? (Aa-Zz Sounds)
• Handout 3: Kindergarten Quick Dash & Guess Who
• Handout 4: Kindergarten Blending
• Handout 5: Kindergarten Who's Who in Letterland (Aa-Zz Shapes)
• Handout 6: Kindergarten Segmentation

4. Tab and label your Teacher's Guide with the following pages:

Volume 1

• Contents page
• Scope & sequence
• Phonemic Awareness Fast Track page
• Section 2 – a-z Word Building page
• 5-types of lessons
• Lesson 31
• First blending Lesson (Lesson 36)
• First segmenting Lesson (Lesson 42)
• Assessment Record for Section 2
• Lessons 19 – 42
• Lesson 43-60
• Lessons 61- 89
• Lesson 90-107
• Small Group Intervention
• Appendices
• Teacher Strategies
• Glossary of terms

Volume 2

• Section 3 – Onset & Rimes page
• Section 4 - Consonant Blends page
• Section 5 – Long Vowels & Silent Magic ‘e’ page
• Section 6 – Vowel Men Out Walking page
• Section 7 – Vowel Stealers page
• Small Group Intervention page
• Appendices

5. Please have materials such as white boards, markers and sticky notes available, as well as note taking materials for use during the session.