ELS: Essential Blending Books Phase 4

Essential Blending Books allow children to focus on the GPC’s they are learning as well as practice the skill of blending to make words. These books support the Knowledge Trust’s validated SSP programme, Essential Letters and Sounds (ELS), in the 1st half of the Summer Term in Reception and Phase 4.

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 the 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:

Summer Term 1

• Week 1, Book 13 — CVCC-ed/ed/
• Week 2, Book 14 — CCVC-ed/t/
• Week 3, Book 15 — CCVCC-ed/d/
• Week 4, Book 16 — CCCVC
• Week 6, Book 17 — CCCVCC (-er, -est)

*NB Week 5 is a Review week

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.