Answered By: Sarah Purcell
Last Updated: Feb 27, 2025     Views: 214

Download the original Letters and Sounds booklet from this webpage. The booklet can be referenced as follows:

Department for Education and Skills (2007) Letters and sounds: principles and practice of high quality phonics. Available at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7aa7b6e5274a34770e630c/Letters_and_Sounds_-_DFES-00281-2007.pdf (Accessed: 27 February 2025).

For information, here is a Government blog post about the removal of Letters and Sounds from the list of validated programmes:

Media Officer (2021) 'The removal of Letters and Sounds 2007 from the Department's list of validated programmes - teachers' questions answered', The Education Hub, 17 May. Available at: https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2021/05/17/the-removal-of-letters-and-sounds-2007-from-the-departments-list-of-validated-phonics-programmes-teachers-questions-answered/ (Accessed: 27 February 2025). 

For the latest guidance and validated programmes, see this Government webpage:

Department for Education (2023) Validation of systematic synthetic phonics programmes: supporting documentation. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/phonics-teaching-materials-core-criteria-and-self-assessment/validation-of-systematic-synthetic-phonics-programmes-supporting-documentation (Accessed: 27 February 2025).