The Nelson Phonics-in-a-Box approach

Nelson Phonics-in-a-Box 1 introduces the 26 alphabet letters (graphemes) that are used to construct the 44 common speech sounds (phonemes) that make up the English language. Box 1 focuses on the letter–sound relationships in five small collections of letters. These letter sets have been purposefully sequenced to enable students to build upon their phoneme–grapheme correspondences quickly, and to blend two and three phonemes together to make many simple VC (vowel-consonant) and CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words.

Nelson Phonics-in-a-Box 2 focuses on consonant sounds, including double consonants, consonant digraphs, consonant blends and onset and rime. The learning concentrates on blending, segmenting and manipulating sounds to reinforce understanding of these common sounds in words.

Nelson Phonics-in-a-Box 3 explicitly introduces short and long vowel phonemes and graphemes, including irregular vowel sounds.

The Teacher's Resource Book is your comprehensive guide for easily and successfully implementing the Nelson Phonics-in-a-Box program in the classroom.

There is a Teacher's Resource Book for each box, which includes:

• Series background, rationale and overview
• Easy-to-follow lesson plans
• Audio of letter sounds accessible by QR code
• Assessment information
• Photocopiable blackline masters.

The flashcards are used with students so they can learn the focus sounds. The cards feature the letter sounds in clear large type for students, to encourage automatic recognition.

The One-Word Readers can be read after the letter sounds are introduced. Each book includes eight words featuring the letter sound and a picture for each word, to reinforce the sound.

The illustrated Decodable Story Books consolidate and reinforce students' understanding of the letter sounds. The books will help students to practise reading phoneme–grapheme correspondences, CVC words and high-frequency words.