LITTLE WANDLE                                           PHONICS     

By the end of reception in order to achieve the Early Learning Goal for 'Word Reading' your child will need to:

• Say a sound for each letter in the alphabet and at least 10 digraphs.
• Read words consistent with their phonic knowledge by sound-blending.
• Read aloud simple sentences and books that are consistent with their phonic knowledge, including some common exception words.

During the Autumn term we will be introducing your child to the Little Wandle scheme, and extending their learning with phonemes the smallest unit of sound that can be put together to make words, and graphemes a way of writing down a phoneme. Your child will orally be blending and segmenting simple cvc words and word building. As your child continues to develop their phonological awareness they will make steps towards writing and reading with increasing independence. 

Your child will bring home the Phase 2 Grapheme information sheet. The sheet shows the letter phrase we use for each phoneme and how to write the phoneme graphic, as well as the order they will be taught. These are provided for you to help support your child at home.