Phonics
Intent
At Town Field Primary school, we believe that every child can be a reader. From the start of their learning journey with us, we encourage our children to develop a love of reading.
We aim for all our children to become enthusiastic, fluent and confident readers regardless of their background, needs or abilities. Pupils receive rapid and targeted intervention if they need support to meet age-related expectations. This will provide them with the necessary tools to become successful, independent readers.
Town Field Primary serves a rich and diverse community and we believe that books are a powerful tool to enable our children to look out into, and understand, the world around them. We celebrate this diversity throughout the exploration of a range of high quality and age appropriate stories, poems, rhymes and non-fiction texts: this will develop their vocabulary, language comprehension and a love of reading.
Phonics
Phonics
The foundations to phonics is first taught in Nursery, through daily oral blending practise, tuning into sounds activities, rhymes, developing language and building a love for reading.
Children receive daily phonics lessons in Reception and Year 1. Interventions are implemented for children who need additional support to keep on track.
Additional phonics teaching and interventions are implemented throughout school to support children to read and build on their word automaticity.
Reading Sessions
Regular reading is vital to build on reading fluency and confidence.
At Town Field, children who are accessing phonics provision read at least 3 times per week with a trained reading adult. In each session, GPCs, tricky words, fluency words and vocabulary words that are in their reading book are explored and practised. Children read their book independently in each session.
The focus for the sessions are as followed:
Session 1: Decoding – applying phonics knowledge to decode and read the text.
Session 2: Prosody – using expression and building on reading fluency.
Session 3: Comprehension - understanding and answering questions about the text.
Support at Home
The Little Wandle website provides supportive videos of how you can help your child at home. You can watch and download nursery rhymes that your child has learnt at school, watch videos to support you to say the sounds correctly and access videos of how to support your child with different aspects of reading.
https://www.littlewandle.org.uk/resources/for-parents/
We encourage you to listen to your child read regularly. Your child should be able to confidently read their reading book when they take it home and continue to build on their reading fluency.
Children will receive a reading for pleasure book alongside their reading book. This book is to read to your child or to be read together.