Please join us for a Reception Parents and Carers Little Wandle Early Reading meeting on Monday 18th November 5.00 - 6.00pm.

As you know, reading is high on the agenda for us all here at Woodland and we want to continue to support you all to work in partnership with us to support our children with their reading. On Monday 18th November 2024 between 5.00pm and 6.00pm there will be a reading and phonics meeting for our Reception parents and carers. This will provide you all with further information about the ‘Little Wandle’ phonics scheme and ideas linked to how you can support reading at home with your child. We look forward to seeing you. 

At Woodland Community Primary School, we use Little Wandle Revised Letters and Sounds to teach the children phonics.  Phonics is the primary strategy for teaching early reading and writing. Daily phonics lessons in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2, teach the children the phonetic code of the English language so that they can use this to help them to blend to read words and segment to spell words.

The children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 have a daily phonics lesson  The children in Reception are quickly introduced to the most common letters and the sounds that they make so that they can begin to use these letters and sounds to read and spell.

Once children have been introduced to the single letter sounds they are introduced to digraphs and trigraphs. A digraph is two letters that when they are together represent one sound and a trigraph is 3 letters that represent one sound.

Little Wandle resources are used by all staff to support children in acquiring and applying phonic knowledge. 

Helpful Videos

Phase 5 Pronunciations 

Phonics Screen Check

Alien Words