Uffington C
Phonics
Little Wandle
At Uffington we value the importance of developing a love of reading early on in a child’s experience at school. Phonics is one of the building blocks to being a successful reader and writer. We ensure that each child is given the opportunity to develop their reading and writing skills through regular and rigorous teaching.
From January 2025, we will be following the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised programme for our phonics teaching.
The Little Wandle programme is taught as a daily lesson to all children and is regularly assessed to check where the learning gaps are. At Uffington we ensure that each child feels successful in their learning so every reading book that is given to a child will be phonically decodable, using only the sounds and high frequency words that they are familiar with. The children should be reading a minimum of 90% of the book fluently when it comes home to you.
We provide each child with a Phonics Sounds keyring which is updated to include every grapheme that is taught that week as well as tricky word keyrings to support your child's fluency.
We ensure that regular reading sessions are held where the children can enjoy books and adults model the importance of reading books for pleasure. As part of this initiative, we also provide each child with a book to enjoy with a family member alongside their phonically decodable book. They should not try to read this book, it is just for pleasure.
At Uffington we aim to ensure that children master the necessary sounds, keywords and reading skills to achieve the age-related bench marks at appropriately mapped out time points. The children will develop a love for reading and this will in turn promote their literacy skills and influence their writing later on in life.
Useful Resources
Pronunciation guide Phase 2 Part 1
