Phonics

At the Dales Federation we use Read Write Inc to teach our phonics to all children who are learning to read. This is a systematic synthetic phonics programme aimed to develop children's phonological awareness, pace and love of reading. The programme uses a range of strategies all based around Fred the Frog who attends the phonics sessions, we use Fred talk, Fred Fingers and Fred Games to help engage children in the teaching of phonics.

Introducing FRED

Here is Fred the frog - he joins us for all phonics sessions and often makes sneeky appearances throughout the day too. Ask your child about Fred and see what mischief he has been up to today.

Teaching Strategies

Fred joins us to help with Fred Talk, where we sound out each word before blending the word back together to read. He also helps us with Fred Fingers, when we do this we have to count how many sounds are in each word, and he also joins us for Fred Games, this is an opportunity to play short reading games to help develop our understanding of the sound we are learning.

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