Fónaic le Fís is our innovative Irish phonics programme designed to go beyond sound recognition, empowering young learners not only to grasp Irish phonetics but also master reading and blending skills for a comprehensive language experience.

A systematic programme covering:

• Phonological awareness
• Phonemic awareness
• Phonics, and reading skills.

The Fónaic le Fís Leabhar A Pack contains write-in pupil books providing fun and engaging lesson activities for young children in their first year of learning to read and write as Gaeilge.

Fónaic le Fís Leabhar A:

• Introduces 25 initial sounds as Gaeilge, each with its own engaging character and song sung by John Spillane.
• Consolidates phonological awareness learning covered by the Phonemic awareness drills in the ‘Leabhar an Mhúinteora’.
• Teaches children how to use their phoneme knowledge to read and write decodable words.
• Teaches 20 irregularly spelled words using the ‘heart word approach’.
• Covers 55 out of the top 100 most frequently found words in early years Irish books (35 decodable words and 20 heart words).

• Comes with step-by-step lesson structures and comprehensive support, provided in the Fónaic le Fís – Leabhar an Mhúinteora’.

Fónaic le Fís Leabhrán Fuaime:

• An A5 practice book to revise the 25 sounds.
• Complete with cuttable sound flashcards and heart word reference sheets.
• It contains a page for each sound and space to draw or stick images beginning with that sound. It comes the children’s very own fóclóir
• Contains a list of the Focail Chroíthe covered in Leabhar A to make revision at home easy!