Diss Infant
Phonics (Little Wandle Revised Letters and Sounds)
We use Little Wandle Revised Letters and Sounds to support the systematic teaching of phonics. Children begin phase 2 of Letters and Sounds as soon as they join us in Reception. They continue learning phonics across Reception and Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2). Every child is taught phonics daily.
Phonics overview for Reception and Year 1
Presentation to Parents
Here are the slides used in our presentation to parents about Phonics and Early Reading in Reception and Year 1. They give information about how we teach Phonics and Reading in school, and ways to help at home.
Presentation for Reception Parents
Presentation for Year 1 Parents
How to say letter sounds
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For Phase 5, please look at the Little Wandle Parents page, following the link below.
How we teach tricky words
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How we teach blending
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Reading at home
This video explains how you can support your child with reading at home while they are learning phonics. If your child is in Year 2 (or above) and has finished the phonics programme, please visit the reading page to see how you can support them with reading at home.
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Phase 2 and 3 sounds
The information below can be used to support your child with saying and writing their sounds.
Phase 3Phase 2 - 5 Grow the Code Sound Map
For further support and information about Little Wandle Letters and Sounds, please visit the website by clicking the link below.
Vocabulary
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Phoneme |
The smallest unit of sound in a word - often referred to as a sound. |
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grapheme |
A letter (or sequence of letters) that represent(s) a phoneme. |
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Grapheme-phoneme correspondence (GPC) |
The match between a phoneme and grapheme. |
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Oral blending |
Say phonemes in the word and blend in your head or out loud. |
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blending |
Say individual phonemes, put together to make a word. |
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chunking |
Breaking words or parts of words into phonemes. |
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Multisyllabic word |
A word with more than one syllable. |
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digraph |
A phoneme that is represented by two letters. e.g. ar, ea, er, oi, ch, th |
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trigraph |
A phoneme that is represented by three letters. e.g. air, igh, ear |
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Split vowel digraph |
A digraph that is separated by one or more consonants within a word. eg cake, bite, phone, these, cube. |
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Adjacent consonants |
Consonants blended together when reading a word. |
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Alternative graphemes |
Different representations of a phoneme in a word e.g. high, pie. |