Phonics and Early Reading

As a school, we use the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds validated phonics programme. We appreciate that the teaching of phonics is very different from how we learnt to read as children, and so this page is designed to help you understand how we teach your child to read.

To learn more about the phonemes (sounds) and graphemes (letters) we teach your child and how we teach them to blend the sounds together to read a word, please look at our parental information booklet below and watch the videos in the links.

If you wish to purchase your own set of Little Wandle resources to use with your child at home, these can be purchased at: Little Wandle at Home – Collins

How we pronounce sounds (phonemes) and write our letters (graphemes)

How we teach blending

How we teach tricky words

More information about our curriculum can be obtained by contacting your child’s teacher or the school office. Thank you