Phonics at St. Andrew's School
At St. Andrew's Primary School, we follow the FFT Phonics for all programme.
Phonemes covered throughout Reception and Year 1.
Reception Year 1
As children learn a new phoneme, they are introduced to a picture and phrase to help them learn.
They also have a guided reading text throughout the week to practise this sound.
How can you help at home?
• Reading! Be a role model and share different types of books and your enjoyement. Talk! Pause, prompt, praise.
• Talk, talk, talk. Let your child hear and say new words.
• Sing songs, rhymes, nursery rhymes.
• Play games such as ‘I spy’
• Play with magnetic letters, using some two-grapheme (letter) combinations, eg: r-ai-n = rain blending for reading; rain = r-ai-n segmenting for spelling.
• Help your child learn their spellings (play dough, paint, posters, water, pasta, sand)
• Spot graphemes in books
• Help your child learn tricky words by playing games e.g. pairs
• Play pairs with words and pictures
• Use the internet and games/apps
• Join the library