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The document discusses using the Letterland program to teach 5-year-old children pre-reading and reading skills. Letterland introduces letters as friendly pictogram characters to make them less abstract for young learners. It describes how without this context, letters can seem meaningless to pre-readers, but Letterland's use of stories and characters helps children associate letters with sounds and words in a more engaging way.

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How Using Letterland

The document discusses using the Letterland program to teach 5-year-old children pre-reading and reading skills. Letterland introduces letters as friendly pictogram characters to make them less abstract for young learners. It describes how without this context, letters can seem meaningless to pre-readers, but Letterland's use of stories and characters helps children associate letters with sounds and words in a more engaging way.

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Julieta Baillo de Horta
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How using Letterland ..

Abstract The creation of a micro-environment within the classroom where learners could interact autonomously with the world of written language, is the target of this research project. I will observe five year old children learning through the Letterland Programmes, this is a unique teaching scheme that introduces non readers into the abstract world of letters. Each letter becomes a friendly pictogram character, enabling the child to acquire pre-reading and reading skills Outline of the research When a five year old child faces print, he would probably find it meaningless and totally unfriendly. Imagine you are asked to read the following: !#$%%&/() To a child that hasnt developed reading skills yet print can look as meaningless as the above looks to you. For a five year old child recognizing abstract symbols called letters is a very demanding task. Imagine you were a child; try to get yourself into their frame of work. Your teacher shows you a flashcard with letter C and says: This is letter C for cat. She repeats it and makes you repeat it. So, in the end, you have memorized a sentence and you just repeat it little parrot like, however, when asked: With what letter does the word cake begin?, you would propably not know the answer. Now imagine your teacher tells you a story about a far away invisible land where characters called letters live. And that among all them there is a very special one called Clever Cat. She is very clever because she knows how to cook. She likes cakes and cucumber sandwiches and instead of miaowing she makes a ccc,ccc sound. Can you repeat the sound she makes? Would you like to meet clever cat? . Now the teacher shows you the picture of Clever Cat. She shows you how to

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