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01942 634672

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St George's Ave, Westhoughton BL5 2ER

Telephone:

01942 634672

St George's Avenue

Westhoughton BL5 2ER

Phonics

At Eatock Primary School, we teach Phonics through the DfE validated SSP programme ‘Supersonic Phonic Friends’. This is what it looks like in each year group:

 

Nursery
Phonics teaching starts in our Nursery class. The focus of the teaching and learning in Nursery is developing children’s ability to hear the sounds in the words we speak. Children in Nursery are taught through playful experiences and are exposed to general sound discrimination and phonological awareness.
At the end of Nursery, children can tune in to, listen to and talk about sounds. They are skilled in rhythm, rhyme, alliteration and oral blending and segmenting.

 

Reception
In Reception, children are engaged daily in playful, multisensory phonics lessons. The focus of the teaching and learning in Reception is to listen, recognise, build, read and write. Children are taught one spelling for each of the 44 sounds of the English language.
At the end of Reception children can hear up to three sounds in a word. They can recognise spellings, read, and write simple and complex cvc words using the 44 spellings they have been taught. They can read decodable texts containing The Basics 2 and 3 spellings and make phonetically plausible attempts in their emerging stages of spelling in their writing journey.

 

Year 1
In Year 1, children are engaged daily in playful, multisensory phonics lessons. The focus of the teaching is to embed their mastery of the 44 spellings they have been taught and progress to hearing 4, 5 and 6 sounds in a word. In Year 1, children are taught that there is more than one spelling for a sound that they can hear in a word. They learn that some sounds ‘look the same but sound different’ and some ‘sound the same but look different’.
At the end of Year 1 children can ‘choose to use’ spellings for the 44 sounds in the English language. They can switch spellings and sounds for alternative pronunciations. They can read decodable texts with The Basics 2-4 and The Higher Levels spellings. They make more accurate attempts in their further stages of spelling in their writing journey.

 

Year 2

In Year 2, children are engaged daily in playful, multisensory phonics lessons. The focus of the teaching is develop children’s knowledge of specific spelling rules, adding prefixes and suffixes, and adding endings to words such as plurals.
At the end of Year 2 children can ‘choose to use’ spellings for the 44 sounds in the English language. They can switch spellings and sounds for alternative pronunciations. They can read decodable texts with The Basics 2 -4, The Higher Levels spellings, spelling patterns and rules. They make more accurate attempts in their further stages of spelling in their writing journey.

 

Phonics Screening Check

In the Summer Term, every Year 1 child will take a statutory Phonics Screening Check. This is a phonics based check where the children will be expected to read 40 simple, de-codable words including nonsense words. This is a progress check to identify those children who are at the
expected level in their phonics. The results will be reported to parents. Children will be rechecked in Year 2 if they do not reach the expected level.

 

Reading Books
To enhance the teaching of phonics, phonics based reading books, are used throughout Early Years and Key Stage 1, for both home and guided reading. These are drawn from a variety of schemes such as Oxford Reading Tree or Songbird Phonics. Home reading books are organised to match the progression of the Supersonic Phonic Friends scheme so children receive a reading book that is closely linked to their level of phonic knowledge.

 

Phonics in KS2
For some children, phonics teaching will continue in KS2. The teaching of phonics in KS2 will be dependent on the assessment of the needs of the individuals and groups in each cohort. Children in KS2 will continue to receive phonics teaching until they are able to read decodable texts with The Basics 2 -4, The Higher Levels spellings, spelling patterns and rules. Children will also be able to ‘choose to use’ spellings for the 44 sounds in the English language, switch spellings and sounds for alternative pronunciations and make more accurate attempts in their further stages of spelling in their writing journey.

 

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