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Essential Letters and Sounds

Essential Letters and Sounds Classroom Resources

Key resources to use in your daily ELS lessons

Essential Letters and Sounds (ELS) offers a range of print classroom resources to help support the delivery of the daily ELS phonic lessons. The classroom resources have been developed by teachers to aid practice and help improve the familiarity of letters and sounds in the classroom. 

Created to ensure fidelity to the ELS programme across Reception and Year 1, the resources can be displayed as a clear visual reference on walls and desks to support the whole-class approach to ELS. 

 Key classroom resources:

  • Grapheme Cards
  • Wall Frieze
  • Spelling Poster
  • Activity Books
  • Sound Mats

Are you new to ELS?

This phonics programme follows the original 2007 Letters and Sounds progression. It is designed to ensure that all children learn to read well and make speedy progress. Find out more here


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