New Phonics Intent Jan 2025
Phonics
Intent
At Intack Primary School, we value reading as a crucial life skill. We passionately believe that teaching the skills children need to be able to read and write independently, is fundamental. These skills open the doors to all curriculum areas and life beyond primary education. Because we believe teaching every child to read is so important, we strive:
- To provide good quality phonics teaching using our chosen systematic synthetic phonics programme (Little Wandle).
- For every child to recognise GPCs speedily.
- For every child to decode words accurately and confidently.
- For every child to read some words on sight by teaching the tricky part of a word (tricky words).
- To develop fluency by providing opportunities for repeated reading
- To provide opportunities for children to learn how to form letters accurately using formation phrases.
- To teach children how to accurately spell words by segmenting words into phonemes.
- To equip children with the tools they need to read effectively and quickly to be able to enjoy reading for pleasure as well as use their reading skills as a vehicle for all learning.