Grade 1 Curriculum (Ages 6–7)
Grade One (2nd Edition) combines multisensory phonics with an integrated phonological awareness strand. Across 38 core units and 7 supplementary units, students build phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and language comprehension — structured, engaging, and fully aligned with the Science of Reading.
Curriculum Design
How is the Grade One (2nd Edition) program structured and delivered?
Whole Group Teacher's Guide
38 Core Units and 7 Supplementary Units with easy-to-follow lesson structures following a 5 Day Unit Plan.
Small Group Teacher's Guide
Aligned with the Whole Group lessons, detailed plans provide differentiated instruction with targeted and cumulative practice.
Assessment & Progress Monitoring
Core and Supplementary Assessments help teachers monitor progress and make decisions about pacing, reteaching, and small group differentiation.
Tricks & Strategies
All the Tricks, Strategies and Games for Whole Group, Small Group, or extra practice — organized by skill for easy selection.
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“Children who received the explicit instruction with Letterland learned almost twice as many letter sounds.” — Roberts, 2021
Skills & Learning Outcomes
What will students learn and practise in Letterland Grade One (2nd Edition)?
Phonological & Phonemic Awareness
Lessons begin with 'Ears Ready' oral practice of isolating, manipulating and substituting phonemes, then apply those skills to decoding and encoding through Live Reading and Live Spelling.
Letters & Sounds
Students consolidate letter-sound correspondences while exploring new sounds, spelling rules, and affixes — including the first five Syllable Types for increasingly accurate decoding and encoding.
Blending & Reading
Students progress from CVC words to complex words with digraphs and blends — with daily fluency practice and tactile strategies like the Finger Tapping Trick building automatic word recognition.
Segmenting & Spelling
Basic spelling rules aligned with the phonics sequence, practised through Live Spelling, Sound/Elkonin Boxes, Spelling Sorts, and hands-on Word Building.
High Frequency & Tricky Words
Introduced in each unit and reinforced through Unit Stories and Word Detective exercises for instant recognition and reading confidence.
Word Analysis & Morphology
Students identify base words, prefixes, and suffixes, using Quick Coding to analyze syllable types, affixes, and variant spellings — strengthening decoding and vocabulary.
Print Awareness & Syntax
Reinforces book orientation, reading direction, capitalization, and punctuation — with students applying their skills by writing their own 'Interesting Sentences'.
Teacher Support
Look Inside
Download the free Sample Lesson Pack: an introduction to the program, sample lessons for whole-group, small-group and review instruction, the complete scope and sequence, and a full materials overview.
Teach Grade 1 with Letterland
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