Literacy for 0-2 comes to you from the letter 'S'

Literacy planning for this term has seen me focus around a single letter.

The Letter S is a very unreliable letter that often makes sounds other than the base /s/ sound:

• /s/ as in snake
• /z/ as in was
• /sh/ as in sheep 

Att: Kidzone

But I've tried to vary the media involved.

Books I shared with the class

No so silly sausages!
Slinky Malinky, Open the door
Sinky socks
Pies for Simple Simon


iPad app - Dr Suess ABC's

Videos to support letter recognition

Blog post ideas

Teaching Children about Letters

Learning Our Letters: Why Our Names Are What We Learn First

Worksheets

Yes... I have included a few worksheets and printable activities:
Hidden letter worksheet
Beginning Consonant Sounds

Just for fun: 

A young teacher from an industrial city in the north of England had accepted a temporary job teaching a class of four-year-olds out in one of the most isolated, rural parts of north Wales. One of her first lessons involved teaching the letter S so she held up a big colour photograph of a sheep and said: "Now, who can tell me what this is?"  

Read the remainder of the joke here...