Rocket Phonics at Swain House Primary School
At Swain House Primary School, phonics is taught on a daily basis following the Rocket Phonics story-based Systematic Synthetic Phonics Programme.
Children develop essential literacy skills using a balanced approach that focuses equally on blending for reading, and segmenting for writing and spelling.
The phonics teaching uses a blend of digital and printed resources, flashcards, sounds mats, friezes, write-in pupil booklets (where appropriate), reading books and eBooks to ignite a love of reading and consolidates decoding skills by immersing pupils in captivating illustrated stories (Big Books) and a rich variety of fully-decodable fiction and non-fiction.
This approach to teaching phonics continues through Key Stage 1 and into Key Stage 2 where necessary.
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