Phonics and Reading

Our Nursery pupils receive a daily 10 minute phonics session and work through Phase 1 of the 'Letters and Sounds' programme. Within this, pupils focus on listening skills, segmenting and blending in preparation for reading within Phase 2.

Within Reception and Year 1 children access a focussed daily programme of phonics through the 'Letters and Sounds' programme. The children have a 25 minute lesson each day and work within phases according to their ability. Lessons are led by both teachers and teaching assistants.

Due to high quality teaching, children in Year 2 generally need less of a focus and receive a balance of phonics and guided reading across the week. Children then have a greater opportunity to put their reading skills into practice.

At Woore we use the book banding system where books are colour coded according to their difficulty. Books are phonetically decodable and include a mixture of fiction and non-fiction.