Early Reading

 at Peterbrook Primary School

At Peterbrook Primary School we strive to ensure that all children become successful, fluent readers by the end of key stage one. We believe this is achievable through a combination of high quality, discrete systematic phonics teaching combined with a language rich curriculum that promotes a reading for pleasure culture.

Your child’s reading journey

Reception Autumn term

Welcome to the beginning of the most wonderful journey in which your child, whatever their starting point, will become a fluent, confident reader who loves books!

For many children at the start of Reception, letters look like squiggles on the page and have no connection to sounds. Learning that letters and sounds are linked – phonics – is the key to reading.

In Reception this term, we will teach children the sounds of the first set of letters in the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised programme (Phase 2) so they can begin to use phonics to read.

We will be holding a brief reading meeting to explain how we are now teaching reading in class.  You will also be able to collect some useful resources to help support your child at home.

We look forward to seeing you.

The Reception Team

Sounds Taught in Reception

Grapheme - Phoneme Correspondence (GPC) means the relationship between

a phoneme (unit of sound) and its graphemes (or symbols).

These three videos show you how to pronounce the sounds. Notice how the children don’t add an ‘uh’ sound at the end, so they say: ‘t’ not ‘tuh’. Use the information sheets below each video to help your child remember how to write their letters and say their sounds.