Grapheme Chart for Year 1: Phases 2, 3 and 5 (Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised)

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Practise– using the sound in words – Spotting the new phoneme in words, modelling blending and then allowing the children to read words with the new sound from flashcards? We hope that your child will be familiar with the following words and it may be useful to discuss them at home when you are helping them with their reading. Lots of opportunities should be provided for children to engage with books that fire their imagination and interest. Enjoying and sharing books leads to children seeing them as a source of pleasure and interest and motivates them to value reading. We want children to become lifelong readers, therefore it is essential that they are encouraged to read for pleasure. The desire of wanting to read will help with the skill of reading. To help foster a love of reading, children should take a book home that they can share and enjoy with their parent/carer. Involving the children in the choice of this book is important. These books offer a wealth of opportunities for talking about the pictures and enjoying the story. We want to offer a variety of books, including non-fiction, so they can enjoy a range of writing. Parents/carers need to understand that they should not expect their child to read this book independently and certainly should not try to get their child to do so. The book is for the parent/carer to read to or with the child. Again, it is good to talk about the book with the child, but important not to turn the discussion into a test. The goal is enjoyment. From November 2021, we are introducing a new phonics scheme called Little Wandle Letters & Sounds Revised 2021. It follows the same progression of sounds as our existing scheme but this includes fully decodable books.

Children in year 2 and beyond also take part in similar reading practise or guided reading sessions every week to develop their reading skills once they are secure with phonics.

Many of us know and love Letters and Sounds and have worked hard to make it successful in our settings. We have gathered materials and created resources to teach it as well as we can. When Letters and Sounds was created in 2007, it gave us all the structure and training to teach children to read using Systematic Synthetic Phonics. Its structure and planning gave us an overarching progression and pedagogy, which many schools have used and leaned on ever since.

As of 10th July 2021 Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised is a phonics programme validated by the Department for Education. We support this further from year 2 and in Key Stage 2 with our spellings programme and weekly SPAG lessons in Year 3 upwards. We continue to support children with ‘Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised’ through Key Stage 2 where needed. At Hampton Hargate Primary School, we follow the 'Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised’ Department for Education validated SSP scheme. From Reception, children will take part in daily 20-minute Phonics lessons,. The lessons take the format of: Reading practise is an integral part of the ‘Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised’ scheme. Each week the children will have further opportunities, as part of the ‘Practise and apply’ section of their phonics lesson, to embed their learning of new sounds and to practise the decoding skills they have learnt. Each week your child will have access to two types of reading material:Match the picture. Select pictures from magazine or online and practise oral blending i.e. a picture of a beach, the child will need to orally sound out ‘ b-ea-ch’. You can also show some pictures and then cards showing words to match the picture and the child has to match the word with the correct picture once they have sounded it out and blended. For more information about Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised, book your free spot for their first briefing of the new school year on 2nd September 2021 at 3.45pm. As the children revisit the phase 3 graphemes they will learn a catchphrase to match the sounds. These become even more important when we start learning alternative spellings for the same grapheme. It is really important that the sounds are said clearly and without any other sound attached. When sounds are not said correctly, it can confuse children and they can sometimes struggle to put the sounds together to make the word. As they learn different spellings they ‘grow the code’ and learn to use grapheme charts to help them choose the right spelling. These will be used later in the year.

During all lessons, children are encouraged to use the Grapheme Mats (Grow the Code)’’in the classroom to help them to make phonetically plausible decisions with their independent writing. Our combined phonics and reading programmes follow guidance set out in the government’s new Reading Framework which outlines the huge importance of building children’s fluency in reading, expanding language and creating a love of reading. Research shows that creating able readers really is the key to allowing children to succeed in all areas of their learning. Collins Big Cat Phonics - Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised | Big Cat for Little Wandle Fluency Sets Segmenting –identifying the individual sounds in a spoken word and being able to write down the letters for each sound i.e. him h-i-m.We will no longer to individual reading in class. The children will have 3 reading sessions a week with a teacher or TA. Each reading session will focus on different things.