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Sound Poem /ī/: Language, rhythm, and sound-to-print learning
Five White Mice, written by Jill Eggleton QSO with teaching notes by Joy Allcock, is designed to help students listen closely to language, hear the /ī/ sound clearly, and discover that sound in words and print.
Through rhythm, rhyme, and meaningful language, Sound Poems support students to build sound awareness while deepening their understanding of language and the alphabetic code.
Code-Ed Sound Poems are explicit, structured literacy resources that use carefully written poems to teach students to recognise sounds in words and learn how they can be written.
Each Sound Poem:
Sound Poems are included in Year 2 of The Code Is the Key and can also be used as a stand-alone resource.
Sound Poems are grounded in structured literacy and the Science of Reading.
They support:
For Five White Mice, students explore the /ī/ sound and the different ways it can be represented in print, including:
Independent research, including the Shine Literacy Project, demonstrates that explicit teaching of sound-to-print relationships leads to measurable gains in reading, spelling, and writing.
This approach is endorsed by Professor John Hattie, Professor Sir James Chapman, and Dr Pedro Noguera.
Sound Poems are typically used in short, focused teaching moments, often before writing.
Teachers support students to:
Students learn to hear the sound in spoken words, identify where it occurs, and connect the sound to spelling patterns when reading and writing.
Listen to the /ī/ sound.
Accurate pronunciation matters, particularly when students are learning to hear sounds clearly in words.
The /ī/ sound is a long vowel sound heard in words such as five, white, mice, bright, night, and sky.
Clear modelling helps students:
On the reverse of each Sound Poem card, teachers will find:
Sound Poems are available in digital and printable formats.
Digital poems can be projected for whole-class teaching.
Printable versions allow students to:
Sound Poem /ī/ is part of The Code Is the Key: Year 2 and can also be used as a stand-alone resource.
Invite students into the playful world of Sound Poem /ōō/ — What Would You Do? Through catchy verse and focused /ōō/ word discovery, learners build phonological awareness, deepen vocabulary, and strengthen speech-to-sound-to-print connections in just minutes a day.
