Phonics
At Iver Village Junior School, we strive to ensure that all children become successful, fluent readers with a love of reading. In order to do this, we ensure that we provide every child with high quality phonics teaching as this plays a key role in children developing word decoding skills.
In order to achieve this every child’s phonics skills are assessed when they start in Year 3. From this, a clear plan for the year is created to ensure that pupils develop their phonics knowledge and skills from their individual starting points. High quality phonics teaching, from qualified teachers is provided for every pupil in need of further teaching at our school.
Every lesson has clear precise structure of revisit, teach, practise and apply. This allows for a recapping of previous knowledge and time to embed new learning, this can then be practised and applied in both reading and writing every day.
Every pupil receives a reading book that matches their phonics level to read both at home and at school.
Aims of our phonics curriculum:
In order to achieve this every child’s phonics skills are assessed when they start in Year 3. From this, a clear plan for the year is created to ensure that pupils develop their phonics knowledge and skills from their individual starting points. High quality phonics teaching, from qualified teachers is provided for every pupil in need of further teaching at our school.
Every lesson has clear precise structure of revisit, teach, practise and apply. This allows for a recapping of previous knowledge and time to embed new learning, this can then be practised and applied in both reading and writing every day.
Every pupil receives a reading book that matches their phonics level to read both at home and at school.
Aims of our phonics curriculum:
- To provide consistent, high quality phonics teaching which is accessed by all children regardless of previous teaching
- To ensure that the teaching of synthetic phonics is systematic and progressive based on individual needs.
- To ensure that children have secure phonetic knowledge, understanding and skills so that they can decode words confidently and apply this when reading and writing.
- To teach children aural discrimination, phonemic awareness and rhyme to aid reading, writing and spelling development.
- To enable children to use phonic awareness across the curriculum.
- To provide children with strategies to identify and decode ‘tricky words’.
