Oxford Reading Tree: Level 1+: Floppy's Phonics: Sounds and Letters: Pack of 6

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This guidance document describes the importance of setting up, maintaining and sharing a ‘phonics folder’ for every learner. Closely-matched, Floppy's Phonics Decoding Practiceoffers targeted reading practice at each stage of teaching Biff, Chip, Kipper and Floppy the dog have made Oxford Reading Tree the UK’s most popular reading scheme used by 80% of primary schools in the UK.

Home / Free Resources Free Resources PowerPoint slides for supporting information events for parents and carers. Rigorous teaching sequence ensuring the phonics teaching & learning is straightforward, effective and allows for differentiation in simple, but effective, waysPreviously there were three teachers’ handbooks. The content of the third handbook ‘Planning, Assessment and Resources’ has now been moved to ‘Teaching Handbook 1’ and ‘Teaching Handbook 2’ or to the digital platform. These are easy-to-use posters to achieve the same phonics routines across the school – also suitable for sharing with parents. Oxford Reading Tree Floppy’s Phonics ‘Teaching Sequence’ – An overview of the programme for leaders and teachers Children, staff and parents all love Floppy’s Phonics! We have been using this high quality, rigorous programme for the last eight years and have been delighted with the results we have seen. Floppy’s Phonics engages the children with its familiar characters and supports both teaching and learning with CD-ROMs; classroom visual aids, the structured set of phonics books; cumulative, decodable, activity sheets and texts, plus planning and assessment materials.

Next, they will learn how sounds can be put together ( blended) to make words. For example, they will learn that the sounds of the letters ‘m-a-t’ blend together to make the word ‘mat’. Your child will then learn more sounds and will start blending them too. This shows how very easy it is to teach the alphabetic code ‘incidentally’ in any word for wider reading across the curriculum. Debbie has crafted magic, creating an approach to phonics that - put simply - works! Adopting Floppy's Phonics Sounds and Letters in 2011, we were delighted that 70% of our Y1 pupils secured the pass rate. In 2013, this has risen to 93%, and KS1 standards in reading, writing (and maths!) are up as the children are engaged, focused, motivated learners. This isn't about phonics - it's a pedagogical approach based on expectation, challenge, autonomy and rigour. The kids love it - and so do the staff!" Floppy’s Phonics is a phonics program developed by Oxford University Press. It consists of six stages of learning that help children develop their phonics skills. The Floppy’s Phonics programme teaches the letter/s-sound correspondences of the English alphabetic code explicitly and comprehensively for reading, spelling and handwriting:

This document lists the recommended phonics routines for the three core phonics skills and their sub-skills and then (in red) includes aspects of the phonics routines to consider for honing practice to a high-quality level aiming for consistency and continuity across the school. This is a generic diagram which will help you to reflect on your routine phonics ‘Teaching and Learning Cycle’ and other features associated with your basic skills provision. This description of the three phonics core skills and their sub-skills will enable you to plan and review the balance of your phonics teaching and also analyse/identify specific difficulties of children who are making slower progress. Use a biro or highlighter to indicate gaps in teaching or weaknesses in learning. Provide additional teaching where gaps in learning are identified. The photocopiable, paper-based content which is essential for children’s practice (including revision) is provided via the two teaching handbooks but it is now available in the format of ready-made ‘Activity Books’. These are especially popular in international schools as they simply provide an alternative to teachers photocopying essential material in their schools.

The content of the interactive CD-ROMs has been moved to a digital subscription platform for necessary technological reasons. A huge advantage of this change is that parents and carers can now be provided with free access to the interactive platform via their children’s schools. This amounts to providing ‘home’ with exceptional audio-visual ‘interactive’ content which helps in developing language comprehension along with the phonics content for reading, spelling and writing. Features the much-loved recurring characters of Biff, Chip and Kipper to engage children from the outset First, your child will be taught the most straightforward letters and the sounds they make. For example, they will be taught that the letter ‘m’ represents an mmm sound and the letters ‘oa’ represent an oh sound. It can take until Year 2/Primary 3 before your child might have learned all 44 sounds in English and the many different spellings used for each sound. The ORT Floppy’s Phonics systematic synthetic phonics programme provides you with all the structure and resources you need to deliver really effective synthetic phonics teaching for all children – as well as enriching their vocabulary and language comprehension.Floppy’s Phonics is in line with the Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) teaching principles described in the ‘English programmes of study: key stages 1 and 2 – National curriculum in England’ which is statutory from September 2014. Stage 1: Starting to Read – Children learn the sounds s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d. They also learn to blend sounds to read simple words.