Books by Lisa Holt

Book SynopsisThese large flashcards can be wiped clean so there are no mistakes - just perfect handwriting skills! With Letterland there are in-built clues to help your child remember how to form letter shapes. Use the free app on your mobile or tablet for an interactive experience. Scan the cards to reveal 52 handwriting animations and a game for each letter of the alphabet.

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Book SynopsisThese Phonics Readers give children the satisfaction of reading whole books. The imaginative, decodable stories gradually introduce new phonic elements and build on the vocabulary from previous stories. The order of teaching letter sounds in this series is the popular s a t p i n order. The 8 books contain a total of 30 engaging stories that children can use to decode the 26 most regular alphabet sounds, as well as blended sounds, the digraph ng and some 'tricky' high-frequency words.

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Book SynopsisFar Beyond ABC completes an invaluable set of three books, which together hold the key to learning to read. Beautifully illustrated, it opens up the secrets of 20 more major English spelling patterns. The best of it is that the child-friendly story logic draws on children's thinking skills and their imaginations, so they easily remember the phonic facts that the stories carry.

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Book SynopsisHelp your child to discover a fascination with letter shapes and sounds with the Letterland Phonics Activity Books. Book 2 includes stickers, fun activities and actions, puzzles, colouring, handwriting practice, word building and reading. The letters and sounds are introduced in the popular teaching order 'satpin', in line with most UK schools. Also included is a link to a free pronunciation guide, so you can be sure that all the sounds you are making are correct. Making the sounds correctly you will enable your child to blend the sounds together and build words, or segment the sounds to read words. Part of a series of six activity books covering the alphabet and 40 further spelling patterns. Contents of this book: eur, hbf l, jvwx, yzq

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Book SynopsisThis new edition set of six full-colour workbooks covers all the sounds and spelling patterns in the Phonics Teacher's Guide (alphabet, blends and digraphs). Each workbook contains structured, decodable activities and guidance on blending and segmenting sounds.

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Book SynopsisLetterland Fix-it Phonics makes learning English fun and easy to remember. Level 2 introduces: - (Aa-Zz) Sounds & shapes review - 26 digraphs / new spelling patterns - Essential English grammar - Essential English vocabulary - Understanding spoken English - Speaking in English.

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Book SynopsisBright illustrations and super stories make this sequel to the ABC Book ideal for young children moving beyond a-z. Featuring 22 essential letter combinations, it provides memorable reasons to explain why many letters change their sounds when they meet each other in a word.Trade ReviewBrand new content for 2011. Audio book CD brings the familiar Letterland characters to life! Children can listen along to the stories as they look at the book. Colourful, engaging illustration throughout.

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Book SynopsisFeaturing 40 essential spelling patterns, this multi-sensory book is packed full of little stories to help children remember how read, spell and learn! Phonics Touch & Spell allows children to learn how letters come together to make new sounds! Featuring 40 essential spelling patterns with plenty of things to find containing the target sound, young learners will develop their phonics skills quickly. The child-friendly story logic appeals to children's minds, making the phonic facts easy to remember forever. The letter shapes are textured to help reinforce how to form the letter shapes correctly, and there are fun multi-sensory reading activities throughout the book.

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Book SynopsisThis series of six Phonics Activity Books introduce the alphabet shapes and sounds and and 40 further spelling patterns. Book 4 contains: e_e, ee, ea, y, i_e ie, igh, y, o_e, oa, ow. Letterland stories give child-friendly reasons why, when certain letters come together, they make a completely new sound. This really brings phonics to life making learning so much more memorable! Book 4 includes carefully sequenced word building and reading activities, reward stickers, fun activities and puzzles. There are stickers to engage children in the activities and ideas to extend learning.

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Book SynopsisIn many schools throughout the UK children are encouraged to learn cursive letter shapes right from the start. By enabling children to start letter formation this way the transition to fully joined-up writing is much quicker. Letter shapes are shown in colour and the lead-in strokes that start on the line are in grey, so children can learn to distinguish the letter shape from the join lines.

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Book SynopsisThese Fix-it Phonics Workbooks are full of engaging activities, stickers and colouring to help children learn and consolidate knowledge of the Aa-Zz shapes and sounds with their Letterland friends. Each unit includes handwriting practice of both the lower and uppercase letter shapes as well as word building, review and listening activities, giving every child a sense of accomplishment and progress.

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Book SynopsisHundreds of thousands of children have already learned to read with the help of Annie Apple, Bouncy Ben and Clever Cat - just three of the friendly characters who form part of the unique phonics system called Letterland. Now you can have fun with the Letterland friends in this wipe clean book and practice letter shapes again and again!

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Book SynopsisThese super-sized scenes act as a wonderful focal point for everyone. The front of each large page features the Letterland character in a beautifully illustrated scene, with so much to look at and find starting with the focus letter sound. Each right hand page shows the uppercase and lowercase letter shapes, with guidance on how they are formed. There are also bright, fun illustrations of some of the key vocabulary from the scene with word labels below. Talk about the letter shapes and sounds, search for vocabulary and start to recognise whole words.

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Book SynopsisLetterland Fix-it Phonics makes learning English fun and easy to remember. Level 3 revises and builds on the knowledge learned in Level 1 and 2, as well as introducing 21 new, more advanced spelling patterns. As ever, the learning is combined with listening and speaking skills, blending, segmenting and reading and writing skills.

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Book SynopsisEvery child needs to learn to read, write and spell. With Letterland it is simply an enjoyable journey of discovery. This new edition of the Letterland Teacher's Guide encompasses the fun of learning with Letterland friends, whilst ensuring that the core criteria of an effective, systematic, phonics programme are fully met.

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Book SynopsisThis series of six Phonics Activity Books introduce the alphabet shapes and sounds and and 40 further spelling patterns. Book 5 contains: u_e, ue, ew, oo, wr, ar, or, er, ir, ur. Letterland stories give child-friendly reasons why, when certain letters come together, they make a completely new sound. This really brings phonics to life making learning so much more memorable! Book 5 includes carefully sequenced word building and reading activities, reward stickers, fun activities and puzzles. There are stickers to engage children in the activities and ideas to extend learning.

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Book SynopsisThis series of six Phonics Activity Books introduce the alphabet shapes and sounds and and 40 further spelling patterns. Book 6 contains: u oo, oy oi, aw au, ow ou. Letterland stories give child-friendly reasons why, when certain letters come together, they make a completely new sound. This really brings phonics to life making learning so much more memorable! Book 6 includes carefully sequenced word building and reading activities, reward stickers, fun activities and puzzles. There are stickers to engage children in the activities and ideas to extend learning.

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Book SynopsisThese Fix-it Phonics Workbooks are full of engaging activities. With lots of reading and writing, stickers and colouring, children consolidate knowledge of spelling patterns introduced in Level 3. The Letterland friends provide children with the skills they need to blend sounds and read and write words. There are also review and listening activities, giving every child a sense of accomplishment and progress.

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Book SynopsisThese Fix-it Phonics Workbooks are full of engaging activities. With lots of reading and writing, stickers and colouring, children consolidate knowledge of spelling patterns introduced in Level 3. The Letterland friends provide children with the skills they need to blend sounds and read and write words. There are also review and listening activities, giving every child a sense of accomplishment and progress.

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Book SynopsisThe Fix-it Phonics Student Books are designed to be used in the classroom with the Audio CD/Downloads. In total the books contain eight units of learning. The engaging Letterland characters introduce 21 new spelling patterns through stories, songs, chants and play. Every unit guides children on how to blend sounds to read words, there are lots of stories to read throughout, regular review lessons as well as ‘Talk time’ pages to encourage good communication and oral language skills.

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Book SynopsisThe Fix-it Phonics Student Books are designed to be used in the classroom with the Audio CD/Downloads. In total the books contain eight units of learning. The engaging Letterland characters introduce 21 new spelling patterns through stories, songs, chants and play. Every unit guides children on how to blend sounds to read words, there are lots of stories to read throughout, regular review lessons as well as ‘Talk time’ pages to encourage good communication and oral language skills.

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Book SynopsisThese Fix-it Phonics Workbooks are full of engaging activities, stickers and colouring to help children learn and consolidate knowledge of spelling patterns introduced in Level 2. The Letterland friends provide children with the skills they need to blend sounds and read and write words. There are also review and listening activities, giving every child a sense of accomplishment and progress.

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Book SynopsisThe Fix-it Phonics Student Books are designed to be used in the classroom with the Audio CD/Downloads. In total the books contain ten units of learning. The engaging Letterland characters introduce 40 new spelling patterns through stories, songs, chants and play. Every unit guides children on how to blend sounds to read words, there are regular review lessons as well as `Talk time’ pages to encourage good communication and oral language skills.

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Book SynopsisThe Fix-it Phonics Student Books are designed to be used in the classroom with the Audio CDs/Downloads. In total the books contain eight units of learning. The engaging Letterland characters introduce the Aa-Zz shapes and sounds through stories, songs, chants and play. Student Book 2 also includes lots of work on vowel sounds, how to blend sounds together and even a first digraph! Every unit guides children on how to blend sounds to read words, there are regular review lessons as well as `Talk time’ pages to encourage good communication and oral language skills.

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Book SynopsisThese Fix-it Phonics Workbooks are full of engaging activities, stickers and colouring to help children learn and consolidate knowledge of the Aa-Zz shapes and sounds with their Letterland friends. Each unit includes handwriting practice of both the lower and uppercase letter shapes as well as word building, review and listening activities, giving every child a sense of accomplishment and progress.

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Book SynopsisThis sturdy board book provides a funand entertaining way to introduce tinytots and toddlers to alphabet sounds. Ideal for little hands to hold as youtalk about the pictures and make theletter sounds together.

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Book SynopsisHelp children begin joined-up handwriting writing with this wipe-clean handwriting book. Discover exactly where the joins and breaks are, so letters can be formed in the most efficient way.?

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Book SynopsisThis bright book helps children link letter shapes and sounds and is a first introduction to the a-z Letterland characters. Children will love finger tracing the letters and making links between the letters, and the sounds they make at the beginning of simple words - a great first step towards learning to spell. Suitable for ages 3+.Trade ReviewNEW edition for 2011 with a focus on initial sounds Now with actions included on every page Full of alliterative objects to find

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Book SynopsisThis activity book encourages children to take the vital first steps on the road to reading. They will begin to build words, then identify words that rhyme and anticipate word endings. There's plenty of fun to be had drawing and colouring pictures too. Great for developing pencil control.Trade ReviewUpdated edition for 2011 with new design Learn to build and rhyme words Carefully structured to support reading development Helpful parent tips on every page

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Book SynopsisThis sequel to the best-selling ABC Book teaches what happens when letters come together in a word.

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Book SynopsisThis work is highly interactive - includes pair work activities and games to make your teaching more effective. Each 2-page lesson consolidates letter sounds and vocabulary covered in the ELT Student Book. Size is A4/8.3"x11.7" of 40 pages.

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Book SynopsisThis write-in activity book is for children progressing from tracing the letters to independent writing. It includes fun pre-writing activities with a focus on pencil control.

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Book SynopsisLetterland Fix-it Phonics makes learning English fun and easy to remember. Level 1 introduces letter recognition skills - sounds and shapes (Aa-Zz), listening and speaking skills, blending and segmenting skills as well as a basic English vocabulary.

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Book SynopsisThese super-sized scenes act as a wonderful focal point for everyone. Each large page features a digraph in a beautifully illustrated scene, with so much to look at and find containing the focus digraph. There are also clear illustrations of some of the key vocabulary from the scene with word labels below. Quick reminders of each of the Letterland spelling stories are included - these stories can play a vital role in helping children remember sounds and spelling patterns. Talk about each digraph together, search for vocabulary and start to recognise and read whole words.

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Book SynopsisThese Fix-it Phonics Workbooks are full of engaging activities, stickers and colouring to help children learn and consolidate knowledge of spelling patterns introduced in Level 2. The Letterland friends provide children with the skills they need to blend sounds and read and write words. There are also review and listening activities, giving every child a sense of accomplishment and progress.

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Book SynopsisThe Fix-it Phonics Student Books are designed to be used in the classroom with the Audio CDs/Downloads. In total the books contain eight units of learning. The engaging Letterland characters introduce the Aa-Zz shapes and sounds through stories, songs, chants and play. Every unit guides children on how to blend sounds to read words, there are regular review lessons as well as `Talk time’ pages to encourage good communication and oral language skills.

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Book SynopsisThis book contains 80 bright pages which invite interactivity, with accompanying CD. Letter sounds and topic-based vocabulary are covered in each 4-page lesson. Lively games, activities and more songs are included and carefully structured with built-in revision. "ELT Student Book" is presented in the format of size A4/8.3"x11.7" of 80 pages.

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Book SynopsisThis fun-filled activity book is designed to help children develop a variety of early reading skills. Perfect for little ones, it contains a variety of activities designed to develop rhyming, matching, and letter-spotting skills.Trade ReviewUpdated edition for 2011 with new design Now with helpful parent tips on every page Essential part of the 'Letterland at home' range

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Book Synopsishis lively new activity book is full of activities encourage children to identify words that rhyme and anticipate word endings - vital steps on the road to reading. Included is an Alphabet of Poems - a wonderful new resource. Children will love the rhymes because they can play with language and children always love to play!Trade ReviewNEW a-z of sentence completion poems. Carefully structured to help develop reading skills. Helpful parent tips on every page.

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Book SynopsisYour child could be a tactile learner - needing to touch things to learn. Your child could be a visual learner - needing memorable, clever images to look at. Your child could be and auditory learner - needing engaging stories and rhymes to listen to. The wonderful thing about this Phonics Touch & Trace book is that it is multisensory, allowing your child to learn letter shapes, letter sounds and develop a real awareness of words in a way that suits them best!

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Book SynopsisGo on a reading adventure with your Letterland friends in this new series of 26 books. Carefully designed imaginative stories allow you to share the reading experience with levelled sections for your child to read with minimal support.

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Book SynopsisThis series of 10 books accompanies the Letterland teaching range. Each book contains a selection of short stories. In total there are 32 engaging stories featuring the phonic elements introduced in the order of teaching listed below, as well as some 'tricky' high-frequency words. Consonant digraphs: sh, ch, th, wh, phVowel digraphs: a_e, ai, ay; e_e, ea, ee, y; i_e, ie, igh, y; o_e, oa, ow; u_e, ue, oo, ewR-controlled: ar, or, er, ir, ur, wrFurther digraphs & digraphs: o, oo, u, oy, oi, aw, au, ow, ou, ear, air

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Book SynopsisThe pack comprises of the 2 Starter Activity Books with Sticker sheets insides. The books contains a variety of different multi-sensory exercises. Children sing, chant, use stickers, draw, play games and really engage with learning English.

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Book SynopsisLetterland Fix-it Phonics Starter Level is designed to introduce the very first skills a child needs when starting to learn a language. The 6 Unit programme immerses children in sounds right from the start. Activity Books are designed to be used in the classroom with the Audio CDs or Software. Activity Book 1 focuses on Environmental and Instrumental Sound Discrimination, Body Percussion, Rhythm and Rhyme. Simple vocabulary is introduced, such as animals, numbers, body parts, feelings, colours and shapes. The Activity Book contains a variety of different multi-sensory exercises. Children sing, chant, use stickers, draw, play games and really engage with learning English.

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Book SynopsisLetterland Fix-it Phonics Starter Level is designed to introduce the very first skills a child needs when starting to learn a language. The 6 Unit programme immerses children in sounds right from the start. Activity Books are designed to be used in the classroom with the Audio CDs or Software. Activity Book 1 focuses on Environmental and Instrumental Sound Discrimination, Body Percussion, Rhythm and Rhyme. Simple vocabulary is introduced, such as animals, numbers, body parts, feelings, colours and shapes. The Activity Book contains a variety of different multi-sensory exercises. Children sing, chant, use stickers, draw, play games and really engage with learning English.

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Book SynopsisBring lessons to life with board games, cards and manipulatable resources. Pack also includes 26 letter/action cards.

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Book SynopsisA 32-page booklet, full of helpful information on how to present each Fix-it Phonics Starter lesson. Comes with 2 audio CDs.

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