ANPS TC 2020

Many private pre-schools in Indonesia have started not only to teach English and use English as the medium language but also to teach reading in English. There are several ways of teaching reading, but in this subject
the writer focus on Letterland, how Letterland can help children to learn to read and how the teachers adopt the method. Letterland is a method of teaching reading to young learners; created by Lyn Wendon and used in many countries, including Indonesia. Letterland is a way of teaching reading which focus on phonemic awareness, the letters’ sound or phonic and also a multi- sensory system for teaching to read, write and spell. What make Letterland different is, it is developed as a real land/place where all the letters are alive as pictogram characters which have their own special characters, names, sounds, songs, action trick, shapes and
stories (Manson and Wendon, 2003).