Get your Year 1 students ready for the phonics screening check(PSC) with confidence using the Essential Letters and Sounds (ELS). Our blog shares top tips for consolidating code knowledge, providing reading opportunities, and targeted teaching interventions. Say goodbye to testing anxiety and hello to PSC success with ELS.
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The ELS Progress pack provides catch-up support using the consistency and rigour of the ELS teaching programme alongside reading books which are aligned to ELS, and pitched at the right level for children who are finding reading slightly harder.
Read moreGet ready for the new academic year and ensure a successful start in teaching Essential Letters and Sounds (ELS) with these very helpful tips! Assess your resources, organise decodable reading books, allocate training time and more on the blog! Find out more.
Read moreWhat is the guidance around Letters and Sounds? The DfE have recently announced that the 2007 Letters and Sounds Handbook is not a full Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) programme. It does not provide the support, guidance, resources or training needed to meet the requirements of a systematic and rigorous approach to the teaching of phonics. […]
Read moreFind out how our DfE-validated phonics programmes support you and your school with ensuring every child learns to read, and loves to read.
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