Letterland Thursday 8-29-13

Letterland Thursday

 

Come along with me each Thursday as we take a visit to Letterland!

 

What is Letterland?

 

 

Letterland is a unique, phonics-based approach to teaching reading, writing and spelling.. The Letterland characters transform plain black letter shapes into child-friendly pictures and they all live in an imaginary place called Letterland.
Simple stories about the Letterland characters, explain the full range of dry phonics facts so that children are motivated to listen, to think and to learn. These stories explain letter sounds & shapes, allowing children to progress quickly to word building, reading and writing.

Who are the characters?

 

Here is a list of the new (and old) characters

 

Letter	New Letterland Name	Classic Letterland Name
A	Annie Apple
B	Bouncy Ben
C	Clever Cat
D	Dippy Duck
E	Eddy Elephant
F	Firefighter Fred	Fireman Fred
G	Golden Girl
H	Harry Hat Man	Hairy Hat Man
I	Impy Ink
J	Jumping Jim
K	Kicking King
L	Lucy Lamp Light	Lucy Lamp Lady
M	Munching Mike
N	Noisy Nick	Naughty Nick
O	Oscar Orange
P	Peter Puppy	Poor Peter
Q	Quarrelsome Queen
R	Red Robot [New Character]	Robber Red [Old Character and Former Character]
S	Sammy Snake
T	Talking Tess	Ticking Tess (formerly Ticking Tom)
U	Uppy Umbrella
V	Vicky Violet [New Character]	Vase of Violets [Still appears in the later series alongside Vicky Violet]
W	Walter Walrus [Wicked Water Witch now in the form of a Walrus known as Walter]	Wicked Water Witch [Old and Former Character]
X	Fix-it Max [Just Max on his own as Maxine is not always around to be with Max]	Max and Maxine - Kissing Cousins - as it was in the 1990s
Y	Yellow Yo-Yo Man
Z	Zig-Zag Zebra



Next Thursday we will start learning about each character.