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Classroom resources

Grapheme Cards support teaching and reviewing of graphemephoneme correspondences.

Picture Cards provide visual prompts for practising the phonemes during the phonics lesson.

Word Cards and Tricky Word Cards for each Phase provide children with the opportunity to practise reading at the right level and develop their fluency.

Now available as ready-to-use cards organised by Phase for ease of use

Learn at Home Phonics Flashcards for parents to support phonics learning at home. Includes an advice card with tips for practising letter sounds.

Lesson Prompt Cards for each year group support teachers with step-by-step instructions and tips for each lesson.

NEWReview Word Cards Review and practise previously taught sounds throughout the programme. Now available as ready-to-use cards organised in teaching order for ease of use.

Keep-up Teacher's Guides

Ensure every child learns to read by putting in place instant support for any child falling behind through same-day keep-up sessions.

• Provide clear, easy-to-follow, small-step lessons supported through prompt cards, covering Phases 2–5 of the programme

• Ensure every child has a secure knowledge of graphemes and blending so they can read fluently

• Contain all the resources you need to plan and teach effectively to the digraphs should be pacey. When reading the words, ensure lots of practice by asking all the children, then individuals/rows of children, and then all the children again, to read the words.

Watch the children carefully to ensure they are all blending in their heads. (Children will often mouth the sounds to themselves at this stage.)

• Ensure there is enough time for the children to read each word.

Quick review Shuffle the cards. Tell the children to read the words on the cards without sounding out. Show each card and sweep beneath the word to signal blending.

• Repeat.

Teach and practise: Read a tricky word

Show the tricky word on a card. Read the decodable parts of the word. Point to the ‘tricky bit’ and tell the children the sound that this grapheme makes.

• Encourage the children to indicate – with a silent gesture (e.g. nodding their head, thumbs up) – when they are ready to blend.

Notes Reception Terms: Spr1, 2; Sum 1, 2

Once children learn more GPCs, words that were previously tricky are shown in red (in brackets) in the weekly grid.

Model reading the word.

Ask the children to read the word a few times independently.

Wall Friezes

To display in the classroom to support children while they are learning graphemes incrementally.

Grapheme Charts

Helpful charts to display in the classroom to support children to make links to all the grapheme-phoneme correspondences.

Grapheme Mats

A pack of 10 double-sided and laminated desktop mats that provide a quick reference for all the graphemes in Phases 2 and 3, as well as capital letters.

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