Early Reading

Phonics and Early Reading at Tiverton

The phonics and reading scheme that we use at Tiverton is Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised. We use this mostly in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2. Elements of the program may be used in Years 3 to 6.

How does Little Wandle work at Tiverton and at home?

Daily phonics sessions as a whole class
Children will also have daily or weekly keep up sessions as required
3 small group reading sessions weekly. Each day will focus on a different reading skill.

Day 1- Decoding

This gives the children the opportunity to practice reading all the sounds and words the book uses.

Day 2- Prosody

Prosody is the expression we use when reading which makes it sound more interesting.

Day 3- Comprehension

During comprehension reading sessions, children learn to understand what they are reading and practice answering questions about it.

Little Wandle books are available for you to read with your child online https://www.collinshub.co.uk/login/

Children will also bring a book they have chosen from their class library. They are not expected to be able to read this book, it is for them to enjoy with an adult at home.
The words from your child's reading book will also be sent home weekly so you can practice reading them

Each child has a home reading diary so parents can record when they have read their child's library book or Little Wandle book at home. Parent's can write a comment in the diary about the book or even draw a smiley face as a record of this. Teacher's will respond weekly with a stamp or sticker.

Here is how we say the sounds taught in Reception

Here is how we say the sounds taught in Year 1

Learning tricky words

Tricky words are high frequency words which means they appear commonly in books. Little Wandle has a special code to be able to read these words but they are known as 'tricky' because children may not have been taught all the sounds they need yet in order to red these common words. Below is a video explaining how we teach children how to read these tricky words as well as the the words taught in Reception and Year 1.