Phonics and Talk Time Frieze Set

This product includes two sets of resources: the 26 one-sided ‘Alphabet Frieze Sheets’ (paper) and the 26 double-sided ‘Alphabet Cards’ (silk laminated card).  

The ‘frieze’ design is matched to the ‘characters’ and ‘key picture-words’ in the two consecutive ‘Phonics and Talk Time’ nursery books authored by Debbie Hepplewhite.

In ‘Phonics and Talk Time’, the first role for the use of capital letters is for the beginning of people’s names – thus children are introduced who have names beginning with A (Anna), B (Ben), C (Carol) and so on – with ‘Mr Rat’ illustrating the use of a capital letter at the beginning of a surname.

The frieze design also includes the key picture-words (pictures and their printed words) used on Debbie’s Alphabetic Code Charts and in the ‘No Nonsense Phonics’ and ‘Phonics International’ DfE-validated ‘systematic synthetic phonics’ programmes. These key picture-words provide a mnemonic (aid to memory) to help learn the letter/s-sound links (the alphabetic code) for reading and spelling. 

The ‘Alphabet Frieze Sheets’ are intended for wall display and they are also useful to create ‘browse books’ (folders with plastic sleeves to put the sheets in) for nursery and pre-school bookshelves and table tops.

The ‘Alphabet Cards’ are useful for adult-led, hand-held introduction to the content on the cards: model how to form the letter shapes, point out that both capital letters and lower case letters are CODE FOR THE SAME SOUNDS, say the sounds (as purely as possible) in response to pointing under the letter shapes, talk about the position of the focus letter/s in the key picture-words and in their spoken words (said slowly), describe the role of capital letters in people’s names and at the beginning of written sentences, what is a ‘word’ (spoken and printed) and what are ‘sentences’, and that written sentences end with a full stop.

NOTE: The children are not being asked, or expected to, read the words and sentences, they are just there for an introduction to the concepts.

Click HERE to see the content via a PDF ‘flick book’.