Phonics and Early Reading at MFL
Phonics and Reading at MFL are taught through the Little Wandle, Letters and Sounds programme. These important skills are taught right from when the children start school-life in EYFS. Phonics provides pupils with the tools to decode words when reading, and to segment words into individual sounds for writing and spelling.
Alongside the teaching of Phonics, children will use the matched Little Wandle Reading books and will read at least three times a week in a group. These books will be brought home each week.
Children in EYFS and KS1 who may find the acquisition of the GPCs (grapheme-phoneme correspondences) challenging for example /igh/ and/or the skill of blending the sounds together to read words, challenging, will receive 1:1 ‘keep-up’ sessions. Children may receive further support in KS1 and KS2 with the Little Wandle ‘Rapid Catch-up’ programme.
Below is a link to the parents’ area for Little Wandle. On this page are the programmes of teaching in EYFS and KS1 and other informative supporting documents and videos.
https://www.littlewandle.org.uk/resources/for-parents/
The children will also bring home a ‘Book to Share’ which they choose each week and an adult should read these to the children or with the children.