Phonics
Reception and KS1
Curriculum Intent:
As a whole school, we are committed to using the Sounds-Write Phonics approach to assist the children from Reception to Year 6 to learn to read, write and spell independently with accuracy, understanding and confidence.
Skills
- The Sounds-Write approach ensures that:
- Children develop key concepts about the way English is written
- Children practise the skills essential for reading and spelling accurately (segmenting, blending and phoneme manipulation)
- Children learn the sounds and the spellings of English.
Curriculum Implementation
Explicit Phonics Lessons and Interventions
Children in Reception and Key Stage One will have daily phonics lessons
Children in Reception will be taught the Initial Code:
A 30-minute Phonics session in Reception might include
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Initial code lesson |
Knowledge and skills |
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+ Word Building |
letter/sound correspondence, blending and segmenting |
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+ Symbol Search |
letter/sound correspondence |
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+ Sound Swap |
phoneme manipulation, e.g. map cap |
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+ Reading and spelling words |
blending and segmenting |
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+ Dictation |
Summarising all the above |
Children in Year 1 and 2 will be taught the Extended Code:
A 30-minute Phonics session in Year 1 and 2 might include
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Extended code lesson |
Knowledge and skills |
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+ Word puzzles |
A sound can be represented by more than one spelling -including split spellings (e.g. a_e), blending and segmenting |
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+ Reading and writing |
A sound can be represented by more than one spelling -including split spellings, blending and segmenting |
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+ Sound review |
A sound can be represented by more than one spelling -including split spellings, blending |
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+ Seek the Sound |
Listening for the target sound in a text, identify the spelling alternatives which represent the target sound |
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+ One spelling, Different sounds |
A spelling can represent more than one sound, blending and segmenting |
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+ Dictation |
Summarising all of the above |
Sounds Write is also used further up the school as an intervention for those children who have fallen behind in their reading and spelling, a diagnostic test will let us know the areas that need to be worked on (segmenting, blending and phoneme manipulation)
