Working with Letters and Sounds 4 (WLS 4): Ontario Teacher Edition. This edition directly links each page of the student workbook to the relevant requirements of the 2023 Ontario Language Curriculum. This edition also contains lesson plans and teaching tips to 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
• 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.