Chitter Chatter Chants and Speed Sounds

Chitter Chatter Chants use rhythm and repetition to help students build automatic recall of letter-sound correspondences across the LLLL sequence. Short, chantable phrases reinforce each sound, supporting faster, more confident decoding during reading practice.

What is a Chitter Chatter Chant? A Chitter Chatter Chant uses our Speed Sounds and Chants cards to provide mnemonic support for learning phoneme-grapheme correspondences taught in the Little Learners Love Literacy® program. In Stages 1–4 our mnemonics are characters from Milo's Birthday Surprise, from Stage Plus 4 they star Pip, Tim and friends. Chitter Chatter Chants should always be followed by Speed Sounds, as we want children to look at the letter and say the sound automatically. 

Speed Sounds and chants boxes
speed sounds and changes cards, stages 1-6
Stage 7 speed sounds and chants cards

Watch Fiona as she shows us how to do Speed Sounds and Chitter Chatter Chants for Stages 1-7:

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