Phonics at Five Lanes!

                                                                                                  Intent Statement

At Five Lanes we follow the Little Wandle Phonic Programme. We start teaching Phase 1 Phonics in Nursery which concentrates on developing the children’s speaking and listening skills. The children have lots of access to musical instruments and rhymes, both through focused teaching activities and through the different areas of provision. By the end of the Summer Term the children are beginning to learn the Phase 2 Phonics sounds. In Reception the children learn all of the Phase 2, Phase 3 and Phase 4 sounds and practise their Tricky Words. In Year One the children revise the sounds they learnt in Phase 2, 3 and 4 and then move onto Phase 5. The children practise blending and segmenting words and learn how to read real words and non-sense words (monster words). They also practise and learn their Tricky Words. In Year Two the children revise Phase 5 and then move onto Phase 6. They learn all about different spellings and how these are applied to words.