Phonics

Phonics at Madginford Primary School

 

 

At Madginford Primary School we are passionate about reading and want to encourage all children to become fluent, confident readers who develop a love for reading! Reading can help children become independent life-long learners.

We use a synthetic phonics programme called 'Little Wandle.' This programme is designed to ensure all children start reading and writing quickly.  

Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised is a complete systematic synthetic phonics programme (SSP). We prioritise the teaching of phonics; we teach phonics daily in Year R and Year 1. It is vitally important that children review and revisit Grapheme Phoneme Correspondences (GPCs) and words, daily, weekly and across terms and years, in order to move this knowledge into the children's long-term memory. Our consistent approach to phonics ensures that children are given the best possible foundation for reading, writing and language skills. 

Children need to learn to read as quickly and reasonably as possible, so that they can move from learning to read, to reading to learn, giving them access to the treasure house of reading. Our expectations of progression are aspirational yet achievable; children who are not keeping up with their peers are given additional practice immediately through keep-up sessions.

On-going assessment of children's progress takes place and the books children read in school and take home to read are fully decodable and matched to their reading levels.

Children's secure phonics knowledge. As well as fully decodable books, children take home a non-decodable book for sharing that can be either read to or with them. These books play an essential role in developing a love of reading; an important distinction is that these books are being shared with the children, but they are using fully phonically decodable books to practise their independent reading.

What will my child learn with Little Wandle?

• Learn that sounds are represented by written letters

• Learn 44 sounds and the corresponding letter/letter groups using simple picture prompts

• Learn how to segment sounds

• Learn to read using blending practise

• Learn to spell words using the phonemes they have been taught

• Show that they comprehend the stories by answering questions.

Please see link below for our Little Wandle Letters and Sounds programme progression for Reception and Year One.

Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Reception and Year One Overviews

For more information about Little Wandle please see the website:

https://www.littlewandle.org.uk/resources/for-parents/