Phonics

Phonics

Read Write Inc is our chosen Phonics programme.

RWI is taught through daily phonic lessons where we teach sounds, children practise reading and spelling words containing these sounds, then we give children decodable books containing sounds and words they can read. 

They read each Storybook three times at school and again with you at home. 

On each reading, children’s fluency increases and the more they can focus on what the story is about.

Children also learn to spell the words they have been reading and develop their ideas into sentences so that they can write about the Storybooks they read.

Alongside this we read stories to children: stories they cannot yet read for themselves

Our aim is for children to finish the RWI Phonics programme quickly so they can start reading these books for themselves.

Speed Sounds

Using RWI, we make learning to read easy for children because we start by teaching them just one way of reading and writing every sound. Here they are on the Simple Speed Sounds chart we use in class.

We teach Set 1 sounds first - (sounds as far as a e i o u).

Children need to know sounds – not letter names – to read words.

Fred Talk

Alongside teaching children sounds, we teach them to blend sounds to read words e.g. s-a-t, sat. 

We use Fred Talk to help children read.

Fred can only speak in sounds. He says d-o-g, h-a-t etc. 

Speaking like Fred helps children to understand that words are made up of sounds.

Fred helps children practise blending sounds together because he needs the children to say the words for him. Fred says d-o-g, children tell him the word is dog.

This is how we quickly teach all of our children to blend.

Spelling

We use Fred Fingers to help children sound out words to spell easily.

It means they do not have to memorise lists of spelling words.

It is a tool so they will be able to spell any word. 

For the Read Write Inc Phonics information guide for parents please click here

For more information and ways to help at home please click here