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At St Peter and St Paul we use the systematic, synthetic phonics scheme Sounds Write. The Sounds Write phonics programme is now being taught to all children. 

Sounds Write

Sounds Write phonics programme is a sound to print phonic approach. The children have daily opportunities to learn new sound spelling correspondences as well as revise previous code knowledge. 

Sounds Write offers daily opportunity for the children to develop their phonetic skills: 

- blending (putting sounds together to read words) 

- segmenting (breaking down words to spell) 

- phoneme manipulation (understanding how sounds can be used to create the words needed) 

Below is an overview of the order in which the sound-spelling correspondences are taught. Once introduced, sound spelling correspondences are regularly revised to ensure correspondence. 

Please note that whilst we continue to embed Sounds Write within our school, our current Year 3 cohort (who had previously been taught using a different scheme), are also working on the Extended Code - More Spellings  to ensure security of code knowledge for all pupils.

Supporting reading at home

To support your child's reading at home, please: 

- support your child to read part of their decodable reading book at home every night. 

- focus on reading a smaller quantity but rereading to build up fluency and understanding. 

- ask lots of questions and discuss what is being read

- send in your child's reading book and reading record each day so we can read together at school and change books 

- share your child's chosen reading for pleasure book 

- read to your child to model reading skills and foster a love of reading. 

Please find below the slides from our most recent reading workshop as well as a link to a free Sounds Write training course. 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact your child's class teacher. 

How to help your child at home - the Sounds Write way!