Little Wandle (Nursery-Year 1)

Your child is on their journey to becoming a skilled reader.

Starting in Nursery, children are exposed to sounds and letters that are the foundation of early reading and beginning reading word-less stories and eventually simple stories based on words consisting of CVC (or consonant-vowel-consonant words like 'cat').

In Reception, they learn all of the single letter sounds, the consonant digraphs and some vowel digraphs (digraph: two letters, one sound) and trigraphs (three letters, one sound). Reading is practised with increasingly difficult texts that match their growing ability. 

In Year 1, children will learn the remaining graphemes in the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised programme. These are alternative spellings for the sounds that they already know. As children grow in their confidence and fluency, children will read increasingly challenging texts. 

Children will start their journey towards being spectacular spellers by first applying their phonetic knowledge to their spelling. The aims for year 1 children, based on the National Curriculum, are that children can use 'phonetically plausible spellings' which will make them confident writers in the future.