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Phonics at Rolleston

Our school has adopted the KTC (Knowledge Transfer Centre) approach to Phonics led by Ann Smallberger. The approach is multi-sensory and caters for all learning styles (visual, auditory and kinaesthetic).

All teachers and teaching assistants at Rolleston who teach phonics have had training by Ann or in house training. Rolleston has a phonics lead who coordinates the training and delivery of the KTC phonics within Rolleston.

Phonics is taught from the beginning of Foundation 1 starting at Phase 1, Phases 1, 2 and 3 are taught in F2, Phases 3, 4 and 5 in Year 1 and Phase 5 in Year 2. It is a whole class phonics programme that supports the phonetic needs of all our learners. This is a systematic and consistent approach which is taught for 20 minutes every day. The children are taught new sounds, key phrases and terminology. These are then used to support reading and writing during guided reading and writing sessions.

Phase 2

Phase 2 is the introduction of grapheme phoneme correspondence. Children will continue with oral blending and segmenting. There are 4 letters introduced in the week with a day as a revision session on the fifth day.

Set 1	s	a	t	p	revision
Set 2	i	n	m	d	revision
Set 3	g	o	c	k	revision
Set 4	ck	e	u	r	revision
Set 5	h	b	f, ff	l, ll	ss
Set 6	j	v	w	x	revision
Set 7	y	z	zz	qu	revision

Phase 3

Children will be introduced to new graphemes during this phase. Children will continue to practice oral segmenting and blending and will apply their knowledge of blending and segmenting to reading and spelling words and captions.

Set 8	ch	sh	th	ng	revision
Set 9	ai	ee	igh	oa	revision
Set 10	oo (moon)	ar	or	ur	revision
Set 11	ow (cow)	oi	ear	air	revision
Set 12	er		oo (book)		revision

Phase 4

Phase 4 is the teaching of adjacent consonants.

Set 13	sp	dr	fl	br	revision
Set 14	st	-st	tr	gr	revision
Set 15	cr	pr	sc	fr	revision
Set 16	tw	sw	xt	nt	revision
Set 17	mp	nk	nd	cl	revision
Set 18	sm	lk	sk	lf	revision

Phase 5

Alternative spellings

Set 19	ph	ow (snow)	oe	ay	revision
Set 20	ie	i-e	o-e	a-e	revision
Set 21	ir	ue	ea	e-e	revision
Set 22	au	aw	ew	u-e	revision
Set 23	wh	ure	oy	ou	revision

Alternative pronunciations

Set 24	a - acorn	e - he	i - find	o - cold	u - unit
Set 25	c - cent	ea - bread	g - giant	ie - chief	y – by
Set 26	ch - chef	ch - school	ey - they	ou - you	y - very
Set 27	tch - catch	ture - picture	dge - fudge	mb - lamb	se - please
Set 28	are - bare	ere - there	kn - knit	wr - wrap	i - chilli
Set 29	eer - deer	augh - caught	se - house		revision

All children are baseline assessed at the beginning of the academic year. They are then assessed at the end of every phonic phase. Some children will receive extra daily intervention support outside of the phonics lessons and if needed in KS2.