   {"id":7558,"date":"2022-10-09T10:02:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T10:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartelwickfederation.org.uk\/hart\/?page_id=7558"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:44:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:44:49","slug":"phonics-and-early-reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hartelwickfederation.org.uk\/hart\/phonics-and-early-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonics and Early Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you wish to purchase your own set of Little Wandle resources to use with your child at home, these can be purchased at: <a href=\"https:\/\/collins.co.uk\/pages\/little-wandle-at-home\">Little Wandle at Home \u2013 Collins<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-9c33aff8-9449-4975-aa22-b23f5cf91340\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hartelwickfederation.org.uk\/hart\/?attachment_id=7559\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Parental-Information-Booklet<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartelwickfederation.org.uk\/hart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Parental-Information-Booklet.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-9c33aff8-9449-4975-aa22-b23f5cf91340\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">How we pronounce sounds (phonemes) and write our letters (graphemes)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Phase 2 sounds taught in Reception Autumn 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-ZtjFIvA_fs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Phase 2 sounds taught in Reception Autumn 2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qDu3JAjf-U0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Phase 3 sounds taught in Reception Spring 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DvOuc7cWXxc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-4fbae8b3-1b2d-426b-ba0e-8bc9ac228d07\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hartelwickfederation.org.uk\/hart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Pronunciation_guide_Autumn_1.pdf\">Reception Autumn 1 Sounds and how we write them<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartelwickfederation.org.uk\/hart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Pronunciation_guide_Autumn_1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-4fbae8b3-1b2d-426b-ba0e-8bc9ac228d07\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-82a773bf-b3c4-4d4a-b76a-36a46e78f688\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hartelwickfederation.org.uk\/hart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Pronunciation_guide_Autumn_2-1.pdf\">Reception Autumn 2 Sounds and how we write them<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartelwickfederation.org.uk\/hart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Pronunciation_guide_Autumn_2-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-82a773bf-b3c4-4d4a-b76a-36a46e78f688\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-923bc9a9-667f-4231-a9c9-030b10b1cac0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hartelwickfederation.org.uk\/hart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/How-to-say-Phase-3-sounds-August-2022-.pdf\">Reception Spring 1 Sounds <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartelwickfederation.org.uk\/hart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/How-to-say-Phase-3-sounds-August-2022-.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-923bc9a9-667f-4231-a9c9-030b10b1cac0\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-ca022edb-5199-4cae-80ad-9ceb0e38375a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hartelwickfederation.org.uk\/hart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/How-to-say-the-Phase-5-sounds-September-2022.pdf\">Year 1 Sounds <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartelwickfederation.org.uk\/hart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/How-to-say-the-Phase-5-sounds-September-2022.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-ca022edb-5199-4cae-80ad-9ceb0e38375a\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-560a300e-27cf-462d-b9d7-15eabdd29c0a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hartelwickfederation.org.uk\/hart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Capital_letter_formation-4-1.pdf\">How we form our capital letters<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartelwickfederation.org.uk\/hart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Capital_letter_formation-4-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-560a300e-27cf-462d-b9d7-15eabdd29c0a\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">How we teach blending<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How we teach blending\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IL5YUCPyC5I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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