While there are forty-four sounds, there are numerous ways to combine letters to spell these sounds. They also need to understand that the same sound can be represented by a range of letter combinations. Learners see the letter shapes and combinations, hear the sounds and write the letters and words.
Children learn the terminology very quickly and easily.
They can soon tell you that one letter to one sound is a graph, that two letters to one sound is a digraph, three letters a trigraph and so on. This program is currently being used at Kenilworth and Conondale Schools. For further information, please contact your local school.