Phonics & Reading
Phonics is a method for teaching reading and writing of the English language by developing learners' phonemic awareness—the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes—in order to teach the correspondence between these sounds and the spelling patterns (graphemes) that represent them.
The goal of phonics is to enable beginning readers to decode new written words by sounding them out, or in phonics terms, blending the sound-spelling patterns. Since it focuses on the spoken and written units within words, phonics is a sublexical approach and, as a result, is often contrasted with whole language.
Within in foundation stage and Key stage 1, we use the letters and sounds phonics scheme. All our reading is linked to phonics and we use phonics based reading books. Year 1 use mainly Daisy reading books while foundation stage and Year 2 use a variety of reading scheme books.
Please find below a variety of resources to support your child with early reading and phonic knowledge.
