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Phonics and Reading

Phonics is recommended as the first strategy that children should be taught in helping them learn to read. It runs alongside other teaching methods such as Reading Practice and Shared Reading to help children develop all the other vital reading skills to give them a real love of reading.
 
At St Peter's we use a phonics programme called Little Wandle to support early reading.
 
 

So what is phonics

Words are made up from small units of sound called phonemes. Phonics teaches children to be able to listen carefully and identify the phonemes that make up each word. This helps children to learn to read words and to spell words. These might help to understand phonics jargon.......