Phonics & Early Reading

At Oakthorpe we use the Read Write Inc. Phonics (RWI) Programme which is a Department for Education approved systematic synthetic phonics teaching programme. In Reception, Year 1 and for some children in Year 2, pupils follow the progression within the Read, Write, Inc scheme. Phonics is taught daily in small groups which are tailored to the ability of each child. Regular assessments ensure that children are always working at the appropriate pace and level. Additional 1-1 reading happens each week with every child in Key Stage 1 being read within over a 2 week cycle. These sessions aim to build upon the phonics being taught and continue to build fluency, whilst also developing comprehension skills through questioning. 

Using RWI we aim to:

● Establish consistent teaching, progression and continuity in the teaching and learning of phonics throughout the school.

● To have robust assessment procedures to regularly check progress and identify pupils in need of intervention

RWI will enable all children to:

● Recognise, say and write all phonemes within Set 1, Set 2 and Set 3 sounds

● Apply and understand spelling patterns e.g prefixes and suffixes, that are taught throughout Set 2 and Set 3 as multisyllabic words

● Use phonic knowledge to decode and blend to read phonetically decodable words ‘Green Words’

● Recognise high frequency ‘Red Words’ by sight

● Read with fluency for both pleasure and to retrieve information

● Use phonic knowledge to segment to spell

● Write clearly, accurately and coherently using phonic knowledge