Phonics
At Pakefield Primary School we use a systematic synthetic approach to phonics and follow the scheme of work from Little Wandle.
What is Little Wandle?
Little Wandle is a complete systematic synthetic phonics programme (SSP). We prioritise the teaching of phonics; we teach phonics daily in Year R , Year 1 and Year 2. It is vitally important that children review and revisit Grapheme Phoneme Correspondences (GPCs) and words, daily, weekly and across terms and years, in order to move this knowledge into the children's long term memory. Our consistent approach to phonics ensures that children are given the best possible foundation for reading, writing and language skills and one that goes beyond the phonics check in Year 1. Not only do we practice this in school, we work with parents and carers to ensure that these skills are built upon at home.
Little Wandle is a complete phonics curriculum that teaches the skills, concepts and code knowledge necessary for children to read and spell.
The skills we teach the children are:
- Segmenting – pulling apart individual sounds in a word
- Blending – pushing sounds together to make a word
- Phoneme manipulation – inserting and deleting sounds e.g. taking out one sound and inserting another (e.g. mat – bat).
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