Kindergarten Curriculum (Ages 5–6)
Kindergarten (2nd Edition) combines multisensory phonics with an integrated phonemic awareness strand. Across 36 core units, students build phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and language comprehension — easy to implement, child-friendly, and fully aligned with the Science of Reading.
Curriculum Design
How is the Kindergarten (2nd Edition) program structured and delivered?
Whole Group Teacher's Guide
Whole Group lessons teach core concepts with cumulative, targeted practice — 36 units of easy-to-follow lessons building from sound to word to sentence to text level.
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.
All Green on EdReports: Letterland's K–2 Foundational Skills Curriculum is rated “Meets Expectations” (97% overall), confirming strong instruction and practical support for teachers.
“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 Kindergarten (2nd Edition)?
Phonological & Phonemic Awareness
Students isolate, blend, segment, and manipulate phonemes — starting each lesson with quick 'Ears Ready' oral practice, then applying skills with letters in word building, decoding, and encoding activities.
Phonics, Letter Sounds & Names
In the first 5 weeks, students connect letter names, sounds, graphemes, and formation for all 26 letters — then build accuracy and speed with digraphs, blends, CVC words, and long vowel patterns.
Letter Shapes & Handwriting
Letterland characters are uniquely connected to letter shapes, so students form letters correctly, avoid reversals, and recognize lowercase and uppercase — supported by Uppercase Tricks and Handwriting Songs.
High Frequency & Tricky Words
High-frequency and Tricky words are introduced in each unit and reinforced in the K-Decodable Readers, building instant recognition and fluent reading confidence.
Fluency, Vocabulary & Comprehension
Students build fluency with K-Word Cards, explore rich vocabulary through Letterland stories and scenes, and strengthen comprehension through retelling routines and story mapping.
Teacher Support
Look Inside
Download the free Sample Lesson Pack: an introduction to the program, 7 sample lessons for whole-group, small-group and review instruction, the complete scope and sequence, a full materials overview, and a friendly 'Who's Who in Letterland' reference.
Teach Kindergarten with Letterland
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