Oxford Reading Tree: Level 1+: Floppy's Phonics: Sounds and Letters: Pack of 6

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Debbie has crafted magic, creating an approach to phonics that - put simply - works! Adopting Floppy's Phonics Sounds and Letters in 2011, we were delighted that 70% of our Y1 pupils secured the pass rate. In 2013, this has risen to 93%, and KS1 standards in reading, writing (and maths!) are up as the children are engaged, focused, motivated learners. This isn't about phonics - it's a pedagogical approach based on expectation, challenge, autonomy and rigour. The kids love it - and so do the staff!"

It can take until Year 2/Primary 3 before your child might have learned all 44 sounds in English and the many different spellings used for each sound. This shows how very easy it is to teach the alphabetic code ‘incidentally’ in any word for wider reading across the curriculum.At 50 mins 28 secs (slide 57 on assessment), I refer to the first bullet point, “From sound to print for decoding”. This should be, “From print to sound for decoding”. I continue with the second bullet point, “From print to sound for encoding”. This should be, “From sound to print for encoding”. This error is on the video and the printable slide, and in the audio commentary. (Thank you to Alison for drawing this error to my attention.) Debbie Hepplewhite Stage 5: Building Comprehension – Children learn alternative spellings for sounds they already know and practice blending and segmenting longer words.

This poster provides the kind of language and practice that teachers can apply all the time to teach and support spelling in the wider curriculum whilst referring to the main display Alphabetic Code Chart (which should be displayed from floor level and easily accessible for the teacher and children).Then the children will really start to read! They will learn to recognise the different letters or pairs of letters (graphemes) in a word, say the separate sounds ( phonemes) slowly, then put ( blend) them together. For example, they will be taught that the word ‘boat’ can be separated out ( segmented) into ‘b-oa-t’ which represents the sounds bbb-oh– ttt. They can blend these sounds into the word ‘boat’ A systematic and structured approach with built-in consolidation and revision to ensure every child succeeds The ORT Floppy’s Phonics systematic synthetic phonics programme provides you with all the structure and resources you need to deliver really effective synthetic phonics teaching for all children – as well as enriching their vocabulary and language comprehension. This document lists the recommended phonics routines for the three core phonics skills and their sub-skills and then (in red) includes aspects of the phonics routines to consider for honing practice to a high-quality level aiming for consistency and continuity across the school. The resources include hundreds of fabulous full-colour illustrations (for example in the Sounds and Letters teaching and learning books, and their parallel interactive CD-ROMS) with masses of potential to develop language comprehension skills – essential for young learners and learners who not only need to learn how to read, spell and write in English but who are also learning to speak the English language as a new language!