Working with Letters and Sounds 3 (WLS 3): Teacher Edition. Contains lesson plans and teaching tipsto teach the key elements of Science of Reading instruction, including:

• understanding the alphabetic principle, and applying it to reading and spelling isolating initial, middle and final phonemes,
• forming automatic associations between letters and sounds (GPCs),
• blending phonemes to read single words, phrases and sentences, and stories
• segmenting phonemes in order to spell words, phrases and sentences,
• practicing common sentence patterns and points of syntax, including the use of the definite and indefinite articles,
• prepositional phrases and sentence patterns with “this” and “that”
• recognising and using a consonant digraph (th) to read and spell,
• sounding out consonant clusters, to form “blends.”
• using picture and context cues to infer the meaning of new words (after they have decoded them.)
• using their phonics knowledge to read and spell/write decodable words, phrases and sentences.
• ability to arrange elements of a story in logical sequence,
• ability to tell stories orally.
• applying all of their developing skills to independent reading deciding among possible spellings of a sound, depending on its position in a word.