Phonics Progression Map
Intent - A phonics pupil at New Delaval Primary School should:
- Enjoy learning phonics through high quality, practical, efficient and focused systematic synthetic phonics teaching.
- Learn the skills of phonological awareness and be secure in these skills before moving on to graphemes and phonemes.
- Learn the skills of blending and segmenting as they are introduced to the grapheme/phoneme correspondences for reading and spelling.
- Be reading with increasing automaticity throughout year groups.
- Apply their phonic knowledge in the context of reading and spelling in the wider curriculum and understand how and when to do this.
- Use phonics as their first strategy to decode and encode unknown words until a degree of fluency is reached.
- Develop use of spoken language, comprehension and a lifelong love of reading within their English and Literacy alongside the phonics program.
Bug Club Phonics
At New Delaval Primary School we have chosen to implement the Bug Club Phonics DFE approved Scheme.
Bug Club Phonics is a synthetic phonics program based on Letters and Sounds phonic phases and sets that provides everything students need to succeed in early reading.
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Preschool / Nursery
Children in Preschool and Nursery cover phase 1 phonics.
Phase 1 is all about developing pre-phonics skills.
To develop children’s ability to listen to and identify everyday sounds, play listening games. Provide sequences of sounds for them to remember and to say the location of a particular sound – e.g. the ringing doorbell was the first sound, the barking dog was the second sound etc. Developing listening skills leads to an awareness of phonemes and syllables.
Reception
In Reception, Bug Club Phonics teaches a new grapheme and related phoneme in every Phoneme Session. This fast pace, backed up by daily revision of past teaching, has proved the most effective and successful method of phonic training. This means that the basic 40+ phonemes are acquired quickly, and early reading skills develop rapidly. Decodable readers are introduced after just 2 weeks’ teaching at the end of Unit 2. This enables children to apply the taught strategies and enjoy contextualised reading early on.
Year 1
In Year 1 Bug Club Phonics teaches a new grapheme and related phoneme, or alternative spellings to previously-taught phonemes, in every Phoneme Session. This fast pace, backed up by daily revision of past teaching, has proved the most effective and successful method of phonic training. This means that the basic 40+ phonemes (Units 1–12), and then the alternative spellings of these phonemes (Units 13–30), are acquired quickly, and early reading skills develop rapidly. Decodable readers are introduced after just 2 weeks’ teaching, at the end of Unit 2. This enables children to apply the taught strategies and enjoy contextualised reading early on.
Phonics Screening
At the end of Year 1 the children sit a phonics screening check.
The phonics screening check assesses children on how well they can decode certain words. Decoding means sounding out an unfamiliar written word. To do this, children will need to be able to recognise letters and the sounds that they represent. This is an important part of achieving reading fluency!
Year 1 Graphemes