At Franche, we follow the “Little Wandle” scheme to teach phonics. There are some useful videos from Little Wandle below demonstrating the articulation of sounds and an overview of the progression of the programme.
There is also lots of useful information online to support you and your child at home. These resources can be found at: https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/
We involve our parents throughout the year through a variety of activities, including parent workshops, family learning, stay and share sessions and fun phonics mornings.
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We will be assessing the children against the Little Wandle scheme and this will determine their new book band colour. Please note that some children may come home with a different colour book than they were at the end of last year. This is nothing to be concerned about and is in line with the Little Wandle scheme.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact your child’s class teacher.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact your child’s class teacher.
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Reading in Early Years
Chatting away in funny voices as you flick through picture books, enjoying reading eBooks together, making up your own stories and singing nursery rhymes can all spark a love for reading. In Nursery, we play fun sound games with children to support their recognition of initial sounds and begin to blend these orally e.g. s-a-t. It is during Reception that your child will start identifying tricky words, sounds and even blending sounds to read words.
We spend lots of time looking at the pictures in books, making up our own stories to go with the pictures and tracking the words before we start the real ‘reading’. When we are ready, we then apply our phonics knowledge to blend the sounds which enable us to read.
Visit our YouTube channel to see how much our staff love reading!
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