Thirty-six light-hearted rhymes focusing on: initial consonants, short vowel sounds, word endings, alphabetical order, alliteration. Ideal for delivering the ‘rhyme’ objectives of the NLS. Provides opportunities for Reception and Year 1 children to recognise and explore rhyming patters.
The variety of rhymes include a mixture of nonsense and realistic as well as some based on familiar nursery rhymes but with Letterland characters as the subject matter.
Following on from the success of the Big Alphabet Book, the Big Rhymes Book has the same features with its fold out stand and makes an excellent addition to the Programme One range.
The accompanying Teacher’s Resource Masters provide guidance on how to get the most out of the Rhymes Big Book and explain the teaching objective of each page in terms of the NLS with photocopiable copymasters for extension and consolidation activities.
Moira Andrew is a former head teacher and College of Education lecturer. She is currently a freelance writer and a ‘poet-in-schools’. Moira writes poetry for adults as well as children. She is also involved in writing Teacher’s books, children’s stories and early reading books and is one of our Letterland Reading At Home authors. Publications include titles in the Belair Teacher’s range and she has written for Longman, Puffin, Heinemann, Scholastic, Ginn, Nelson and OUP.