Meu Primeiro Livro de Letras – Volume 1 | Brazilian Portuguese Phonics Workbook for Ages 3–5 | Printable

elp your child learn to read in Portuguese while they learn to read in English at school.

Meu Primeiro Livro de Letras is an 8-week Brazilian Portuguese reading programme for children aged 3 to 5 who speak Portuguese at home. It’s designed to run alongside the phonics taught in UK Nursery and Reception classes, so both languages grow together instead of competing.

It follows the traditional Brazilian method: first the five vowels, then one syllable family at a time (PA PE PI PO PU), until your child is joining syllables to read their first words: PA + TO = pato!

Every week mixes seeing, listening and doing, with songs, play dough, tracing, games and hunts around the house. Sessions take just 10–15 minutes a day and are easy for any parent to lead, even if you’ve never taught reading before.

What’s inside (29 pages)

• A parent guide (Guia para os Pais), in Portuguese, covering how the method works, a typical week, how to run a session and tips for raising a bilingual reader
• 8 weekly lessons: the vowels, the P, T, M and N, B and D, S and C, and L and F families, and a final celebration week, Festa das Letras
• Four kinds of activity every week: Ver (see), Ouvir (listen), Fazer (do) and Ponte, a short bridge to English
• 64 picture cards to print, cut out and use for matching and word-building games
• Tracing pages with capital and lowercase letters, in the unjoined print taught in UK schools, with start dots and stroke arrows
• One colour for each vowel throughout the book, so children learn to spot vowels at a glance
• A sticker achievement chart for the fridge (Minhas Conquistas)
• A certificate to celebrate finishing the programme

Perfect for

• Brazilian and Portuguese-speaking families living in the UK
• Children aged 3–5 in Nursery or Reception who already speak Portuguese
• Parents and grandparents who want to keep Portuguese alive at home, not just spoken but read

How it works

1. Buy and download your PDF instantly.
2. Print on A4 paper at home. Print the picture cards on card, and laminate them if you’d like them to last.
3. Follow one week at a time, at your child’s pace. Eight weeks can easily become twelve.

Bonus: the same book with the parent guide and instructions in English.

Please note

This is a digital download. No physical item will be posted. The book is written in Brazilian Portuguese. For personal use only; please don’t share or resell the files.