American Step-by-Step Teacher's Guides

Published on Wed 23 Dec 2009

New American Letterland Step-by-Step Teacher’s Guides

“Co-author in cyberspace” is the way Lyn Wendon describes Stamey Carter, the talented teacher and teacher trainer living in North Carolina (while Lyn continues to live in Cambridge, England) as they worked on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean at creating American editions of the Letterland Teacher’s Guide (2003).

The most exciting thing about these new guides (two for Kindergarten and one for Grade One) is the fact that they were being piloted over the last two years by teachers both in North Carolina and Florida literally while Stamey and Lyn were writing them.  As a result those teachers (over 300 of them) already know the positive impact that these new guides can have, because the end-of-the-year scores (using the well known DIBELS assessment test) achieved by the children in their classes have steadily risen.

Thanks to these new, excellent results, more schools across a range of North Carolina counties have opted to use these new guides this year. And more schools are recommending that children in pre-schools will benefit from the Early Years Letterland materials so that they will be off to a good start on arrival at Kindergarten. (Statistics from the 3 year Florida pilot confirm those pre-school benefits.)

See below links for more information on the American Step-by-Step Teacher's Guides:

http://www.letterland.com/teachers/us-teachers-guides

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