Letters and Sounds

Letters and Sounds was published by the Department for Education in 2007. This guidance helped to embed and unify synthetic phonics teaching in primary schools across England with a detailed and logical curriculum. However, effective teaching of Letters and Sounds relied on schools to build a programme around the Letters and Sounds handbook. In many cases, this did not happen resulting in inconsistency between year groups and classes. The Department for Education also recognised that the phonics teaching programme, guidance, resources and training should ideally be provided by one complete scheme.

In March 2021, the DfE stated that Letter and Sounds “isn’t a full Systematic Synthetic Phonics programme”. Monster Phonics enables Letters and Sounds schools to easily transition to a full SSP. teaches every statutory requirement in Reception and KS1, including the KS1 Spelling Curriculum. This includes all grapheme-phoneme correspondences and spelling rules.

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Monster Phonics is a multi-sensory approach. Schools consistently report increased engagement enabling children to progress quickly, building confidence, with an average 92% phonics screening pass rate being achieved in a typical engaged MP school.