At Rushden Primary Academy we use Little Wandle Programme to teach our Phonics. Please find information and links below to help you support your child with their phonics home.

Little Wandle Support

https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

Online support

Please see the list of websites below which you may find useful in supporting your child with their phonics, or ask your child's class teacher if you would like further advice on how to support your child with phonics.

For guides relating to each book:

https://collins.co.uk/pages/collins-big-cat-little-wandle-letters-and-sounds-revised-books

http://www.bigbrownbear.co.uk/letters/alt.html

Practise making words with this game

http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/question/index/3

Lots of information and guidance

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ParentsMenu.htm

A selection of interactive games for all phonic phases.

www.ictgames.com/literacy.html

Letter names come up in alphabetical order

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml

Activities for all phases

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/literacy/phonics/index.shtml

Phonic game with choice of difficulty (some HFWs, some vowel blends, very varied)

Phonics Glossary

blend (vb) — to draw individual sounds together to pronounce a word, e.g. s-n-a-p, blended together, reads snap

cluster — two (or three) letters making two (or three) sounds, e.g. the first three letters of 'straight' are a consonant cluster

digraph — two letters making one sound, e.g. sh, ch, th, ph.

vowel digraph- comprise of two vowels which, together, make one sound, e.g. ai, oo, ow

split digraph — two letters, split, making one sound, e.g. a-e as in make or i-e in site

grapheme — a letter or a group of letters representing one sound, e.g. sh, ch, igh, ough (as in 'though')

grapheme-phoneme correspondence (GPC) — the relationship between sounds and the letters which represent those sounds; also known as 'letter-sound correspondences'

mnemonic — a device for memorising and recalling something, such as a snake shaped like the letter 'S'

phoneme — the smallest single identifiable sound, e.g. the letters 'sh' represent just one sound, but 'sp' represents two (/s/ and /p/)

segment (vb) — to split up a word into its individual phonemes in order to spell it, e.g. the word 'cat' has three phonemes: /c/, /a/, /t/

VC, CVC, CCVC — the abbreviations for vowel-consonant, consonant-vowel-consonant, consonant-consonant-vowel-consonant, which are used to describe the order of letters in words, e.g. am, ham, slam.