At Houghton Regis Primary School we deliver Phonics using the ‘Little Wandle Revised Letters and Sounds’ teaching programme.
Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised is a complete systematic synthetic phonics programme (SSP) developed for schools by schools. Based on the original Letters and Sounds, but extensively revised to provide a complete teaching programme meeting all the expectations of the National Curriculum, the Ofsted Deep Dive into reading and preparing your children to go beyond the expectations of the Phonics Screening Check.
The teaching of reading begins, using fully decodable texts, matched to each child’s current and developing phonic knowledge. Reading books are taken from a variety of published schemes, including Big Cat Phonics and Little Wandle Letters and Sounds.
Please see the Little Wandle website for more information, including videos on how to pronounce sounds correctly https://www.
Children at Houghton Regis Primary School are given regular opportunities to read in a variety of contexts. Pupils read individually, in guided groups and in larger shared reading situations. They are encouraged to apply and demonstrate their reading across the wider curriculum to help them develop as lifelong readers.
As the children move through the school they will move from decodable readers to using Accelerated Reader. Accelerated Reader uses on-line reading quizzes to monitor comprehension, while literacy skills and vocabulary quizzes will extend student learning and build skills mastery.
LW – Phonics and Early Reading Policy (1)
A Parent’s Little Guide to Helping Children Read
Phase 2 pronunciation – Reception Autumn 1
Phase 2 pronunciation – Reception Autumn 2
Below are nursery rhymes that we sing in Early Years:
1-2-3-4-5 Once I caught a fish alive
