Reading at Jackfield Infant School
At Jackfield it is our aim to foster a love of reading and have an extensive range of exciting reading materials to be used for storytelling, reading for pleasure, guided reading and home reading books. We read the Jolly Phonics reading scheme with a selection of stimulating, challenging and relevant ‘Share with Me’ books for the children to take home to read. Children are encouraged to read at home and at school with an adult and independently.
The Teaching of Phonics at Jackfield Infant School
The approach we use to teaching phonics at Jackfield is by following The Jolly Phonics scheme. We use additional resource to support our delivery, including Rapid Phonics interventions where necessary. Phonics is taught in each year group.
Jolly Phonics is a comprehensive programme, based on the proven, fun and multi-sensory synthetic phonics method that gets children reading and writing from an early age. This means that we teach letter sounds as opposed to the alphabet. These 42 letter sounds are phonic building blocks that children, with the right tools, use to decode the English language. When reading a word, they recognise the letters and blend together the respective sounds; when writing a word they identify the sounds and write down the corresponding letters.