At Ashford CE Primary School, we teach phonics using the government accredited programme, 'Little Wandle Letters and Sounds revised.' This is a fast paced, progressive phonics programme that takes children through five phases.
Phonics is taught in daily twenty-minute sessions through a variety of whole class and small group activities. During the day there are a range of practical activities planned to reinforce the key elements of the phonics teaching and children needing additional support will have planned individual or small group sessions. In the Summer term of year 1 children will complete the phonics screening check. Any children who do not reach the required level will continue to work on phonics-based interventions in Year 2 and into Key Stage 2 as necessary.
Parents are invited to attend a reading and phonics meeting when their child starts full time school in Reception. During this meeting our phonics teaching programme is introduced and they are directed towards the resources available on the Little Wandle website to enable them to support their child at home with phonics.
Below is a list of the teaching programme for each phonics phase:
| Phase 2 graphemes | New tricky words |
|---|---|
| s a t p | |
| i n m d | |
| g o c k | is |
| ck e u r | I |
| h b f l | the |
| ff ll ss j | put pull full as |
| v w x y | and has his her |
| z zz qu ch | go no to into |
| sh th ng nk | she push he of |
| Words with s at the end | we be me |
| Phase 3 graphemes | New tricky words |
|---|---|
| ai ee igh oa | |
| oo ar or | was you they |
| ur ow oi ear | my by all |
| air er Words with double letters |
are sure pure |
| Words ending in ing, s and es |
| Phase 4 graphemes | New tricky words |
|---|---|
| cvcc words such as ‘mash’ ‘hunt’ | said so have like |
| ccvc words such as ‘trap’ ‘chip’ | some come love do |
| ccvcc words such as ‘brush’ | were here little says |
| there when what one | |
| out today |
| Phase 5 graphemes | New tricky words |
|---|---|
| ay, ou, oy, ea ir ie ue u a-e i-e o-e u-e e-e ew aw wh oe ou g ph ey are au tch ture al ear ere wr st sc ce se ze |
their, people, oh, your, Mr, Mrs, Ms, ask, could, would, should, our, house, mouse, water, want, once, laugh, because, eye, busy, beautiful, pretty, hour, move, improve, parents, shoe, any, many, again, who, whole, where, two, school, call, different, thought, through, friend, work, once, laugh, because, eye |