Lesley Clarke's Letters and Sounds

Transform Your Phonics Teaching with Lesley Clarke's Letters and Sounds - a DfE validated programme that delivers results while keeping teaching fun, engaging and flexible.

‘I would definitely recommend the programme. Excellent support from Lesley when you need it and extra sessions offered. Active lesson activities that the children are engaged in. Memorable songs for spelling tricky words which even the lowest 20% of readers/spellers have remembered!’

Phonics Lead, West London Primary School (had an outstanding OFSTED in 2023)

Are you currently experiencing any of these challenges?:

• Prescriptive teaching methods that don't engage children or staff.
• Limited flexibility to adapt your programme to your learners' needs.
• Staff feel the joy has been sucked out of phonics lessons.
• Children are not making enough progress with spelling.
• Children are unsure which grapheme to use to represent a phoneme. when spelling.
• Some children are struggling to remember graphemes and tricky words spellings.
• The decodable readers you have don't meet the needs of all your learners/have unnatural language at the early levels/don't cover a range of genre/don't engage some of your learners
• You'd like a validated SSPprogramme, but need to be able to use your existing readers
• You don't have effective intervention strategies for the lowest 20%.
• You don't have access to high quality phonics subject knowledge training for your staff.

The solution:

Start using Lesley Clarke's Letters and Sounds programme which offers:

• Flexible, engaging teaching approaches.
• Professional autonomy for teachers.
• Lessons which staff and children enjoy.
• A systematic approach to the teaching of spelling (including 'best bet' grapheme choices)
• A system of mnemonics which support children to remember GPCs and tricky word spellings.
• Freedom to match your existing texts wherever possible.
• Freedom to select decodable texts which will appeal to your learners and meet their needs, contain natural language throughout & cover a range of genre (including poetry)
• Comprehensive & effective interventions you can customise.
• Staff training on essential phonics subject knowledge as well as effective teaching of the programme.

"Lesley's thorough and engaging SSP has no doubt had a positive impact on the literacy skills of pupils at our school and helped our children to become both motivated and confident readers and writers. The quality CPD and expertise that Lesley provides has built up the confidence of our staff and this, with the support of detailed planning, resources and teaching notes, has not only saved time, but improved the consistency of phonics-teaching at our school and therefore the quality of teaching and learning. We are very happy with this programme and highly recommend to all"​

Phonics Lead, Beaconsfield Primary School

Expert Support:

Written by Lesley Clarke, drawing on:

• 25+ years as an infant class teacher (12 of which included teaching LaS 2007 in both Reception and Y1)
• 20+ years as a literacy consultant (14+ of which infolved helping schools implement LaS 2007 effectively)

Find out more about Lesley here.