ELS: Essential Blending Books Phase 3

Essential Blending Books help children to focus on the GPC’s they are learning in Phase 3 and practice the skill of blending to make words. These seven books support the Knowledge Trust’s validated SSP programme, Essential Letters and Sounds (ELS), in Reception’s Autumn Term 2 and Spring Term 1, Phase 3.

Children can practice the GPC’s aloud, blend them to make a word and check if they are correct by turning the page to see a pictorial representation.  At the end of each book there are sentences to practice harder to read and spell words (HRSW’s).

Essential Letters and Sounds follows the progression of Letters and Sounds (2007).

GPC’s covered in Books 1-6:

Autumn Term 2

• Week 1, Book 6 — j, v, w, x
• Week 2, Book 7 — y, z, zz, qu, ch
• Week 3, Book 8 — sh, th, ng, nk
• Week 4, Book 9 — ai, ee, igh, oa

*NB Week 5 & 6 is a Review week

Spring Term 1

• Week 2, Book 10 — ar, ur, oo, or
• Week 3, Book 11 — ow, oi, ear, air
• Week 4, Book 12 — ure, er, ow (snow)

*NB Week 1, 5 & 6 are Review weeks

To ensure that books last for a longer period of time, every book will be fitted with a complete protective book cover as part of our service, free of charge.