Phonics and Reading

Little Wandle Letters and Sounds

At Layfield, we use the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds systematic synthetic phonics programme to help structure and deliver our phonics provision within school.

The programme draws on excellent practice, as well as their work with schools around the country. Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised also draws on the latest research into how children learn best; how to ensure learning stays in children’s long term memory and how best to enable children to apply their learning to become highly competent readers.

Little Wandle provides lots of useful resources, information and videos to help support your child with saying their sounds and writing their letters. For further information click this link: https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

Our main reading scheme is the Oxford Reading Tree but we supplement this with texts from other schemes and ‘real’ books. Children use texts as home reading books and also during lessons. Guided reading sets of books are also used by teachers. Several ‘branches’ of the scheme are used, including home readers, Floppy’s Phonics, phonics, first readers, and tree tops.