If one of them is stuck for an idea, the other usually comes up with something or makes a cup of tea. Little Wandle is only Letters and Sounds repackaged after the DfE admitted the original version wasn't fit for purpose so most of the phonic books written to match Letters and Sounds should be suitable.

Children leave Key Stage 2 as competent readers with a shared love of stories and a secure understanding of what they have read.It is our intention to ensure that, by the end of their primary education, all pupils (including those with SEND) are able to read fluently, and with confidence, in any subject in their forthcoming secondary education by ensuring all children have the appropriate word reading and comprehension skills. Older children can exit the Rapid Catch-up programme when they read the final fluency assessment at 90+ words per minute.

This is why we teach reading through Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised, which is a systematic and synthetic phonics programme. We aim to promote reading for pleasure, and hope to instil this love of reading in all children through the culture of our school. Revisit and review – Go through flashcards or allow the children to play a quickfire game to practise something they have learned before and help build their confidence. Reading skills are taught discretely five times a week in 30-minute sessions for all pupils in both KS1 and KS2. Parents will also be invited to attend a phonics meeting with the Phonics Leader in the Autumn Term.

Because we believe teaching every child to read is so important, we have a Reading Leader who drives the early reading programme in our school. This Phase 2 sounds taught in Reception Autumn 1 video is designed to be shared with families by schools using Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised to help them to support learning at home. This ensures that our children are well prepared to begin to learn grapheme-phoneme correspondences and blending to read in Reception and Year 1, where they will follow the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised progression which is designed to ensure that all children build on their growing knowledge of the alphabetic code, mastering phonics to read and spell as they move through school. These short, sharp lessons last 15-20 minutes daily and have been designed to ensure children quickly catch up to age-related expectations in reading.

the Rapid Catch-up fluency assessments when children are reading the Phase 5 set 3, 4 and 5 books for age 7+. Every adult at Wooburn Green is trained to deliver Little Wandle phonics and reading to ensure that phonics and reading are delivered in the same way in every year group and by every adult. and the books are an exciting mix of stories and non-fiction to foster a love of reading in all children.with any child new to the school in Reception and Year 1 to quickly identify any gaps in their phonic knowledge and plan and provide appropriate extra teaching. I think a lot of the Little Wandle books are just the old Big Cat books slotted into the new system.

This could be by showing pictures or objects with the sound in and getting the children to guess or find the sound. It has enabled us to have training for everyone, offering a clear progression in phonics and reading and provision of what to do if children need extra support, through the Keep up, Catch up and SEND programs. My DS is currently reading at the hardest end of Phase 2 (summer born reception) which probably equates to the easier end of red books using the list someone linked earlier. It maps the Little Wandle books to the old reading bands which gave me some assurance all is going ok. Weekly content grids, lesson templates and ‘How to’ videos all help to ensure that all adults maintain consistency in their teaching and this is monitored half termly by the Reading Leader and SLT so that any misconceptions or inconsistencies can be rectified as soon as possible.There will be an exciting mix of stories and non-fiction to foster a love of reading in all children. At Wooburn Green Primary School we teach phonics through the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds revised, which is a systematic and synthetic phonics programme. Children on track should be secure with phase 4 (be able to read single letter sounds and phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs, words with constant blends ie frog, splash or brain as well as words with 3-4 syllables). Phonics is delivered every day in Reception so that children have plenty of opportunities to revisit, practice and apply their phonic knowledge. Mike Byrne grew up near Liverpool before moving to Wales to study Illustration at Glyndwr University.