Oxford Reading Tree: Level 1+: Floppy's Phonics: Sounds and Letters: Pack of 6

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These are easy-to-use posters to achieve the same phonics routines across the school – also suitable for sharing with parents. Update 2020: Throughout 2019, Debbie has worked with Oxford University Press to refresh and update the resources of the Floppy’s Phonics programme. Notable changes include: The photocopiable, paper-based content which is essential for children’s practice (including revision) is provided via the two teaching handbooks but it is now available in the format of ready-made ‘Activity Books’. These are especially popular in international schools as they simply provide an alternative to teachers photocopying essential material in their schools.

The ORT Floppy’s Phonics systematic synthetic phonics programme provides you with all the structure and resources you need to deliver really effective synthetic phonics teaching for all children – as well as enriching their vocabulary and language comprehension. Then the children will really start to read! They will learn to recognise the different letters or pairs of letters (graphemes) in a word, say the separate sounds ( phonemes) slowly, then put ( blend) them together. For example, they will be taught that the word ‘boat’ can be separated out ( segmented) into ‘b-oa-t’ which represents the sounds bbb-oh– ttt. They can blend these sounds into the word ‘boat’Floppy’s Phonics is in line with the Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) teaching principles described in the ‘English programmes of study: key stages 1 and 2 – National curriculum in England’ which is statutory from September 2014.

Stage 3: Building Confidence – Children learn new sounds including j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th. Stage 4: Becoming a Fluent Reader – Children learn new sounds including ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er. The resources include hundreds of fabulous full-colour illustrations (for example in the Sounds and Letters teaching and learning books, and their parallel interactive CD-ROMS) with masses of potential to develop language comprehension skills – essential for young learners and learners who not only need to learn how to read, spell and write in English but who are also learning to speak the English language as a new language! This poster provides the kind of language and practice that teachers can apply all the time to teach and support spelling in the wider curriculum whilst referring to the main display Alphabetic Code Chart (which should be displayed from floor level and easily accessible for the teacher and children). Closely-matched, Floppy's Phonics Decoding Practiceoffers targeted reading practice at each stage of teachingA systematic and structured approach with built-in consolidation and revision to ensure every child succeeds It can take until Year 2/Primary 3 before your child might have learned all 44 sounds in English and the many different spellings used for each sound.

Stage 5: Building Comprehension – Children learn alternative spellings for sounds they already know and practice blending and segmenting longer words. Next, they will learn how sounds can be put together ( blended) to make words. For example, they will learn that the sounds of the letters ‘m-a-t’ blend together to make the word ‘mat’. Your child will then learn more sounds and will start blending them too. This description of the three phonics core skills and their sub-skills will enable you to plan and review the balance of your phonics teaching and also analyse/identify specific difficulties of children who are making slower progress. Use a biro or highlighter to indicate gaps in teaching or weaknesses in learning. Provide additional teaching where gaps in learning are identified. The Floppy’s Phonics programme teaches the letter/s-sound correspondences of the English alphabetic code explicitly and comprehensively for reading, spelling and handwriting: A step-by-step and flexible DfE validated phonics programme that engages children in reading from the outset. Developed by highly respected phonics expert Debbie Hepplewhite MBE, is perfect for schools who want high-quality phonics teaching resources and professional development in a range of online formats, for full confidence in teaching phonics.This document lists the recommended phonics routines for the three core phonics skills and their sub-skills and then (in red) includes aspects of the phonics routines to consider for honing practice to a high-quality level aiming for consistency and continuity across the school.