EdShed Phonics & Spelling
Your Journey to Fluent Phonics
and Spelling Success
English language skills for Grades R to 6
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Welcome to EdShed
EdShed Phonics and Spelling is a fully planned and resourced CAPS-aligned programme that delivers phonics in Grades R-2 and then builds on this foundation in Grades 3-6 through weekly spelling lessons. This enables children to develop their spelling skills up until the intermediate stage in one joined-up programme, tailored for South African Schools.
Key Concepts
In the Foundation Phase, learners follow a systematic synthetic approach to phonics in which they will recognise letters (graphemes) and their associated sounds (phonemes). Learners will develop their knowledge of grapheme-phoneme correspondences learning how to segment them for reading and blend them for writing.
Once children have established the phonemic principles in the Foundation Phase, they will build upon this foundation, developing reading, writing and English language skills through weekly spelling lessons.
What's Included
Fully Planned Lessons
Fully planned and fully resourced lessons for Grades R-6.
Assess & Report
Our tools enable educators to easily track and monitor student progress.
Physical Resources
To support teaching foundation stage.
Digital Games
Fun and engaging games enjoyed by millions worldwide, including offline play.
Interactive Letter Tile Tool
Drag and drop letters, graphemes and other useful tiles with our free letter tile tool.
- Large selection of tiles: letters, graphemes, prefixes, suffixes, colour blocks, grammar and accented characters.
- Drawing tool for free-hand annotation.
- Tiles easily snap together to form words.
- Integrated dictionary data with phonics notations, definitions and audio.
It is wonderful to see the children remembering the sounds, mainly because of their actions. The pace and clarity of the lessons are good. There is the perfect number and range of resources—we love the big and little flash cards, as well as the games and the practice writing sheets.
Head of School, Ilketshall St Lawrence
Children are becoming more confident readers and parents are commenting on this. The programme is giving a real sense of consistency across the school and the planning is improving teachers' subject knowledge. The sequence of learning is effective and allows children to build on previous knowledge. The characters are really powerful and engaging and the children are excited by them. The data is very helpful to identify gaps and plan what consolidation or intervention is needed.
Teacher, Charford Primary School
The fun and colourful nature of the programme is engaging for the children and the structured nature of the session (and the planning that sits behind it) makes it really easy to monitor.
Headteacher, Peel Park Primary
The benefit of using one consistent scheme across the whole school is clear to see. Children are engaged and enjoying the rhymes and characters. The programme gives the children lots of hooks to remember the sounds. Our children love the songs and characters. They're bright, colourful and unique.
Phase Leader, Newlands Primary School
The programme is really progressive and covers everything with lots of relevant resources. The teaching sequence and the resources are all so easy to use. It has increased student motivation and the impact on spelling progress is fantastic! Teacher workload has also massively improved; everything is at hand and easy to use. Thank you for creating this programme and for making it so affordable and easy to use.
Headteacher, Brown Clee Primary School
The programme is useful for teaching spelling patterns and has reduced the amount of time spent by teachers on resourcing and planning. The games have made children competitive to learn their spellings.
Teacher, St Agnes CE Primary School
The programme is excellent. The resources are great and easy to teach from. My favourite element is the phoneme-to-spelling links. Children love Hive games and engagement is high.
Teacher, Alvaston Junior Academy
Being able to discuss and have examples of etymology and the breakdown of phonemes is fabulous. I particularly love the worksheets with the phonemes, the use of Frayer frames and the etymology. The programme has had a huge impact; the children are very engaged and love the Hive games.
Teacher, Victoria College Preparatory School
The programme is great for saving time without compromising on the quality of resources and teaching. It provides great coverage and the variety of activities keeps children engaged.
Teacher, Lambourne Primary School
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