Hi, my 2 boys who are now 12 and 15 went through Letterland Phonics from N1 to K2 at Pat’s Schoolhouse Lim Ah Pin.


I found Letterland Phonics to be a very robust system. By the time the boys reached Primary 1, there was little need to bother about the spelling as they could spell 90% of the words by sound. Personally, I found that intermingling of Letterland into their everyday pre-school made the learning of English fun and painless. I am of the opinion that a once a week enrichment would not work to create a good English foundation.

After equipping them with phonics, the next step is to make them into voracious readers. To enthuse my boys, we bought Scholastics’ " Horrible Series" , Roald Dahl, Harry Potters, Narnia. We would walk into Kinokuniya and come out with 5 books at a time. Over time, their reading tastes changed from genre to genre but the reading habit was already established.