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Phonics

Mr McGreevy leads the teaching of Phonics in School.

Our Intent for Phonics

At Carr Hill Primary, we are passionate about ensuring that all children become confident and enthusiastic readers and writers. We believe that phonics provides the foundations of learning to make the development into fluent reading and writing easier. Phonics is the process that is used to help children break down words into sounds, as well as building letter and word recognition. This can then enable children to use unknown words in the future. Children learn to segment words to support their spelling ability and blend sounds to read the words.

Our Implementation for Phonics

Phonics at Carr Hill Primary follows the ‘Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised’ Programme. This allows our phonics teaching and learning to be progressive from Reception up to Year 1 as well as allowing children’s speaking and listening skills to develop. In  Reception, Phonics is taught through whole class teaching input and small group activities. As we progress into Year 1 and 2, the teaching of phonics is organised into groups depending on children’s prior Phonic knowledge and looking at where individual’s need challenge or support. This is done using the ‘Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised’ six weekly assessments and online progress tracker tool . In addition, these assessments also support us in identifying where groups or individuals may need ‘Keep Up ‘ Programme or extra intervention; this is provided for children throughout Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.

The Impact of Phonics

Regardless of background, ability or additional needs, by the time children leave Carr Hill Primary School they will be enthusiastic and motivated readers who are confident and will enjoy reading a wide variety of genres and text types. They will have the skills to decode words in order to be able to read fluently with a secure understanding of what they have read. We want children to be inspired by a range of literature and passionate about reading for pleasure.

Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised is a complete systematic synthetic phonics programme (SSP) developed for schools by schools. Based on the original Letters and Sounds, but extensively revised to provide a complete teaching programme meeting all the expectations of the National Curriculum, the Ofsted Deep Dive into reading and preparing your children to go beyond the expectations of the Phonics Screening Check.

Phonics Intervention

We provide a daily keep-up provision to ensure that children who are at risk of falling behind are given opportunities to practise and embed the phonics they have bee taught that day. Alongside our daily keep up we deliver group phonics interventions which focus on delivering the additional blending practise children need to help develop their blending and segmenting skills.

We also use the Rapid Catch Up programme with children in Year 2 and above who need more support with mastering the phonic code and becoming fluent readers. The Rapid Catch up programme is also use with all EAL children to help develop their phonics and reading skills.

Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised Teaching Sequence

Little-Wandle-Programme-ProgressionDownload

Phonics Progression

Reception

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RECEPTION-SENTENCE-LISTSDownload

Year One

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YEAR-1-SENTENCE-LISTSDownload

Reception Graphemes  Phase 2 and 3

Year 1 Grow the Code Phase 2,3 and 5

Useful Information for Parents and Carers

How to say Phase 3 Sounds

How to say Phase 5 sounds

Phase 3 Grapheme Information Sheet

Autumn 1 Pronunciation Guide

Autumn 2 Pronunciation Guide

Reception Autumn 1


Reception Autumn 2

Reception Spring 1



How we teach blending


How we pronounce phonemes


How we teach Tricky Words


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