Phonics

Click on the pictures below to support you with phonics

At Edgware, we teach using the Sounds-Write programme. It is a quality first phonics programme and is acknowledged by the DfE as meeting all its criteria for an effective phonics teaching programme. It is a mediated learning programme. Children learn a set of letters, each week, in a clear teaching sequence, through active learning. Teachers model the learning process and children participate with the teacher until they become independent.

Learning to read is complicated and relies on two key processes:

word reading through the recognition and decoding of words, and
comprehension of texts through a range of knowledge and skills.

Parents- you can support phonics understanding by hearing your child read daily

Encourage your child to sound out words that are unfamiliar or tricky.

You can also play games with the letters and sounds.

At Edgware, lessons include:

A recap of the previous sound
Introduction to the new sound
Activities to secure knowledge
Reading and writing in connected text -dictation and/or reading
High Frequency words

We assess the children on entry and then every half term we carry out 'progress checks' to track children's progress.If children need extra support, we will provide an intervention and then re assess to see if the gap has closed and they are more secure in their phonics knowledge.

For more information:

http://www.sounds-write.co.uk/ or look at the Parents section of our website Phonics - Edgware Primary School

Common spellings of the consonants and vowels

Sounds Write - Information for parents

To see Sounds Write in Action - Watch this You Tube clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNhHTmS5Mns