At Moston Fields Primary School we want children to develop a life-long love of learning, including a positive attitude towards reading. Through teaching children how the alphabetic code works, they will be able to read continuous text effortlessly and with understanding.

We have chosen to use the Sounds-Write Programme for the delivery of phonics because  it is a structured, multi-sensory, progressive and co-ordinated approach to teaching children to read and spell.

Aims

For the vast majority of children to be confident readers by the end of Key Stage 1 they will:

• access reading and writing at an age-appropriate level
• have completed the Initial Code by the end of Foundation Stage
• have completed the Extended Code by the end of KS1
• passed the Year 1 Phonics Screening Test
• be able to apply this phonics knowledge to their reading and writing across all the curriculum

Sounds-Write has four key concepts that must be followed.

They are:

1. Letters are symbols or spellings that represent sounds from left to right, across the page
2. A sound can be spelt with 1, 2, 3 or 4 letters
3. The same sound can be spelled in more than one way
4. Many spellings can represent more than one sound

Supporting your child at home

Sounds-Write have a free App available to download. This is suitable for children working at the Initial Code. There are also some free e-books to download. These are fully decodable. 

Here is the link to the Sounds-Write website with all the information.

https://sounds-write.co.uk/support-for-parents-and-carers/

What are decodable readers?

As children are introduced to sounds, they will be able to begin reading and writing words containing those sounds. Decodable readers give children the opportunity to practise reading the sounds that they have already covered in class.

Decodable readers are books where the text has been phonically controlled to only include words with code knowledge in a specific sequence (those which your child has already covered in class). These texts also include ‘high frequency words’. This ensures that the beginning reader can practise using the code knowledge that they’ve learnt, by reading words with that code. in the context of a book.

The link below will direct you to Sounds-Write and gives further information about the decodable books your child brings home each week and how you can support them with their reading.

https://sounds-write.co.uk/decodables-help/