The term of curriculum refers to the sum total of organized learning stated as educational ends, activities, school subject and or topics decided upon and
provided within an educational institution for the attainment of the student.
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Here Letterland curriculum, which is based to the stages of the learners.
1. Early YearsFoundation Curriculum
Early years provides a unique multi-sensory experience of the alphabet, developing listening and speaking skills while laying a solid foundation for
literacy. The child is guided in this stage to realize that the letters the letters that
were learned during the sessions actually form words, therefore the importance of word formation. Care should be taken not to over-emphasis the letterland
characters so much so that it takes precedence over recognition of the actual letters of the alphabet.
Each character of letterlanders has been created and designed to represent the sounds which letters make in words. For example, by saying the names of a
letterland, Clever Cat, Annie Apple, and Dippy Duck, children already have their associated sound on their lips.
Clever Cat makes the sound of the beginning of her name - c , just whisper it Annie Apple makes the sound at the beginning of her name - a as in apple.
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Geoffrey H. Wilson, Curriculum Development and Syllabus Design for English Teaching, Singapore: Eurasia Press, 1976, p. 1
Early year’s teacher teaches children to: a. Recognize capital and lower case letter shape
In each letter of b d p q are the small differences in shape change the
letter completely. These small differences are also a feature of words. A few
example of capital letters and their small letters counterparts: Cc Aa Dd Hh Mm Tt Ss
. With these and some of the other letters, the shape of capital letter is completely different from the shape of the small letter version. By using a
connecting idea or the same character in a different pose, letterland succeeds in linking the two very different shapes, confirming that they both make the same
letter sound. Each Letterlander has a special way of turning their letter into a capital.
They are so proud at being given the important job of beginning someone; name or a sentence that they do their ‘Capital Letter Trick’ and the small letters, its
change makes an important difference by using ‘Small Letter Trick.’
For example, Capital letter ‘C and A’ C
‘Whenever Clever Cat starts important words such as names, she takes a deep
breath and gets bigger’. A
‘In Letterland, the capital A shapes are called Applestand. The apples sit on the Applestand while they say ‘a....at the start important words, such as names like
A nne, Andrew and Ashraf.
For example, Smalllower Letter ‘c and a’ c
‘curve round Clever Cat’s face to begin, then gently tickle her under her chin.
a ‘at the leaf begin, go round the apple this way, then add a line down, so Annie
won’t roll away.
b. Form letters correctly Letterland pictogram characters like to look or move in from the left to the
right. Simple built-in picture cues and logic like this have helped children to avoid
the common problem of reversing similarly shapes letters, such as b and d, p and q
, and to orientate all the other letters correctly. For example, it makes sense to write the downstroke for Dippy Duck ‘draw Dippy Duck’s back, go round her
tummy, go up to her head, then down you come c. Link letter sounds to their shape
There are no obvious reasons for a particular letter or group of letters. Each Letterlander becomes the reason for a letter’s shape and sound. For
example, look at Bouncy Ben, the brown bunny with a big blue letter. His head and ears make sense of the otherwise abstract b shape. Children easily remember
that this character is called Bouncy Ben. The children already have all the information they need to link letter sound and letter shape within one audio-visual
image. The character name acts as a cue for the letter sound: just start to say
Bouncy Ben’s name, ‘b...’ That is the sound his letter makes in words.
d. Sort out reversals
The teacher revises the entire letters on term I c a d h m t s. It’s can help
the children to remember the letter shape belong to each letterland characters.
2. Programme OneIntermediate Curriculum
