The Wonderland Literacy Programme is a comprehensive, multi-dimensional programme and it provide all the components necessary to enable children become successful, motivated readers and writers. Evidence-based research has been translated into practical, engaging and easy-to-implement lessons and strategies. Resources include a systematic, synthetic phonics programme, phonological and phonemic awareness programmes, oral language development schemes, guided reading and writing programmes along with Assessment, Home/School Links, IT components and comprehensive teacher resources.

1. Wonderland – Overview
Stage 1
Author: Fiona Holmes

2. Assessment + Home School Links
ITResources

3. Phonological
Awareness is …
 An understanding of the sound
structure of language
 An understanding of the words,
syllables, rhymes and sounds in
language.

4. Phonics is…
 the relationship between letters
and sounds
 Children need to have an
understanding of the alphabetic
principle, i.e. the knowledge and
understanding that words are
composed of letters that
represent sounds.

5. Oral Language
 Talk is the key to learning and is
linked to the development of
literacy.
 In order to become good readers
children need to develop their
vocabularies and oral
comprehension.

6. Skills Development
 Reading instruction involves
word recognition and
identification, fluency,
vocabulary and comprehension.
 Writing instruction involves
learning to communicate
meaningful ideas and applying
the rules of grammar and
punctuation.

7. Reading
A combination of instructional
approaches
 Interactive Read-Alouds
 Shared Reading
 Guided Reading
 Independent Reading
 Language Activities

9. Wandsville Characters

11. Teachers
Resource Book A
Phonological
Awareness
Programme

15. Teacher’s
Resource Book A
Phonics
Programme

20. Oral
Language
Development
Scheme

21. Oral Language
Development
Scheme
Posters
20 - Year 1
20 - Year 2

22. Oral Language
Development
Scheme
Home School
Links

23. Oral Language
Development
Scheme
Assessment

24. Reading

26. Teacher’s Notes

31. Teacher’s
Resource Book
Fluency

32. Teacher’s
Resource Book
Comprehension

33. Teacher’s
Resource Book
Vocabulary

34. Teacher’s
Resource Book
Vocabulary

35. Assessment + Home School Links

36. Appendix A:
Integration Example

37. Yearly Scheme –
Teacher’s Resource Book
Oral Language
Theme: Friends
Skills Development
Phonological
Awareness
Phonics Skills
Writing Reading Home/
School Links
Assessment

38. Orin’s
Invention
Wandsville
Friends Picture
Picture Book

39. Introductory
Skills Book

40. Burger’s Book
of Sounds

41. Burger’s Book
of Sounds

42. Decodable
Books

43. Wandsville
Rhymes

44. Teacher’s
Resource Book

45. Teacher’s
Resource Book
Writing

46. Oral Language
Development
Scheme
Home School
Links

47. Teacher’s
Resource Book
Home School
Links
Photcopiable
Master

48. Oral Language
Development
Scheme
Assessment

49. Oral Language
Development
Scheme
Assessment
Phonics

50. Teacher’s
Resource Book
A
Assessment
Phonological
Awarenesss

51. Teacher’s
Resource Book
A
Summary
Assessment