The school approach to Phonic and Reading Schemes
Grove Primary School follows the Jolly Phonics programme from Nursery to Year 1. We then use resources from The Jolly Grammar programme and Phonicsplay to teach in Years 1 and 2. The children have a daily 20 minute phonics lesson. The children begin by learning the Jolly Phonic songs and actions for the different letter sounds in Nursery. In Reception they then work through the scheme using the Jolly Phonics Interactive Whiteboard programme as a main resource. In Year One, the children may need to revise some of the Jolly Phonic programme initially and will then move on to following the Jolly Grammar scheme. They will also use the interactive games on the Phonicsplay website. Year 2 revises some of Jolly Grammar 1 if needed and then will use Jolly Grammar 2 and the Phonicsplay programmes to ensuring they are confident with a range of alternative spelling patterns and grammar e.g. suffixes, plurals, tenses. In Year 3 there are some children who still continue with phonic programme to support their spelling. Children from Reception to Year 3 are assessed termly on identifying sounds, blending to read real and nonsense words. They are assessed on their reading and spelling of the High Frequency words.
Please follow the links below to support your child at home:
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ - Phonicsplay website
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djz82FBYiug – Jolly Phonic songs with actions (initial sounds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjKq8s8154s – Jolly Phonics songs (2 letters that make 1 sound)
http://mrthorne.com/ - General phonics website
Reading
From Reception Grove Primary School follows the Oxford Reading Tree Scheme for reading. Children work through the scheme starting from stage 1 until they reach stage 11. Once the class teacher is satisfied with the child's reading and comprehension of books in the stage they are moved on to the next stage. When the children have reached stage 11, the teacher moves the children on to 'purple sticker books' which are situated in the classroom. They then move on to being a 'free reader' where they can read any book from the shelves in the classroom or a book from home. We strongly believe that individual reading is important and all year groups follow the individual guidelines set out by the literacy subject leader.
Reading at home
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