Essential Blending Books are 100% matched to the phonic progression of Essential Letters and Sounds (ELS). They help children practise blending sounds together to make words, using pictures to check their answers. Perfect for supporting phonics learning at home or in school.
Essential Blending Books are 100% matched to the phonic progression of Essential Letters and Sounds (ELS). They help children practise blending sounds together to make words, using pictures to check their answers. Perfect for supporting phonics learning at home or in Reception, Autumn 1, Week 6 of Essential Letters and Sounds.
• Fully aligned to the Department for Education validated ELS programme
• Ideal for early reading practice and phonics consolidation
• Supports systematic synthetic phonics teaching
• Engaging illustrations to aid word recognition
• Developed by Oxford University Press
Essential Letters and Sounds (ELS) is a Department for Education validated synthetic phonics programme, developed by the Knowledge Schools Trust English Hub to help children learn to read quickly and confidently.
Structured around daily lessons and matched to the progression of the original Letters and Sounds framework, ELS provides a clear, systematic approach to phonics. Each stage is supported by engaging decodable books, interactive resources, and practical guidance for parents and teachers.
Used in classrooms across the UK, ELS is designed to build fluent readers, confident speakers, and willing writers. Affordable, flexible, and easy to implement, it works seamlessly with existing resources while offering everything needed to support children's literacy journey both at school and at home.
This is Book 31 in the Essential Letters and Sounds: Essential Blending Books Series. See all Essential Letters and Sounds: Essential Blending Books books here.
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Kate McLelland is an accomplished illustrator and printmaker. She trained in illustration at Edinburgh College of Art. She is the illustrator of bestselling picture book There Was a Wee Lassie Who Swallowed a Midgie and the My First Scottish board book collection.
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