Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised 2021: Programme Progression

Reception and Year 1 Overviews
 

This programme overview shows the progression of GPCs and tricky words that we teach term-by-term. The progression has been organised so that children are taught from the simple to more complex GPCs, as well as taking into account the frequency of their occurrence in the most commonly encountered words. All the graphemes taught are practised in words, sentences, and later on, in fully decodable books. Children review and revise GPCs and words, daily, weekly and across terms and years, in order to move this knowledge into their long term memory. Children need to learn to read as quickly as reasonably possible, so they can move from learning to read, to reading to learn, giving them access to the treasure house of reading. Our expectations of progression are aspirational yet achievable if schools maintain pace, practice and participation by all children. Children who are not keeping-up with their peers should be given additional practice immediately through keep-up sessions.

Reception

Autumn 1 Phase 2 graphemes

New tricky words

s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h b f l

is I the

Autumn 2 Phase 2 graphemes

New tricky words

ff ll ss j v w x y z zz qu ch sh th ng nk
• words with –s /s/ added at the end (hats sits)
• words ending –s /z/ (his) and with –s /z/ added at the end
(bags)

put* pull* full* as and has his her go no to into she push* he of we me be
*The tricky words ‘put’, ‘pull’, ‘full’ and ‘push’ may not be tricky in some regional pronunciations; in which case, they should not be treated as such.

 

Spring 1 Phase 3 graphemes

New tricky words

ai ee igh oa oo oo ar or ur ow oi ear air er

was you they my by all are sure pure

Spring 2 Phase 3 graphemes

No new tricky words

Review Phase 3
• longer words, including those with double letters
• words with –s /z/ in the middle
• words with –es /z/ at the end
• words with –s /s/ and /z/ at the end

 Review all taught so far

 

Summer 1 Phase 4 New tricky words
Short vowels with adjacent consonants
• CVCC CCVC CCVCC CCCVC CCCVCC
• longer words and compound words
• words ending in suffixes:
–ing, –ed /t/, –ed /id/ /ed/, –est		 said so have like some come love do were here little says there when what one out today
Summer 2 Phase 4 graphemes No new tricky words
Phase 3 long vowel graphemes with adjacent consonants
• CVCC CCVC CCCVC CCV CCVCC
• words ending in suffixes:
–ing, –ed /t/, –ed /id/ /ed/, –ed /d/ –er, –est
• longer words and compound words		 Review all taught so far
   
   

Year 1

Autumn 1 

Review tricky words Phases 2 - 4
Review Phase 3 and 4
Phase 5
/ai/ ay play
/ow/ ou cloud
/oi/ oy toy
/ea/ ea each		 their people oh your
Mr Mrs Ms ask*
could would should our
house mouse water want
*The tricky word ‘ask’ may not be tricky in some regional pronunciations; in which case, it should not be treated as such.

Autumn 2 Phase 5 graphemes

New tricky words
/ur/ ir bird
/igh/ ie pie
/oo/ /yoo/ ue blue rescue
/yoo/ u unicorn
/oa/ o go
/igh/ i tiger
/ai/ a paper
/ee/ e he
/ai/ a-e shake
/igh/ i-e time
/oa/ o-e home
/oo/ /yoo/ u-e rude cute
/ee/ e-e these
/oo/ /yoo/ ew chew new
/ee/ ie shield
/or/ aw claw		 their people oh your
Mr Mrs Ms ask*
could would should our
house mouse water want
*The tricky word ‘ask’ may not be tricky in some regional pronunciations; in which case, it should not be treated as such.

 

Spring 1 Phase 5 graphemes

New tricky words
/ee/ y funny
/e/ ea head
/w/ wh wheel
/oa/ oe ou toe shoulder
/igh/ y fly
/oa/ ow snow
/j/ g giant
/f/ ph phone
/l/ le al apple metal
/s/ c ice
/v/ ve give
/u/ o-e o ou some mother young
/z/ se cheese
/s/ se ce mouse fence
/ee/ ey donkey
/oo/ ui ou fruit soup		 any many again
who whole where two
school call different
thought through friend work

Spring 2 Phase 5 graphemes

New tricky words
/ur/ or word
/oo/ u oul awful could
/air/ are share
/or/ au aur oor al author dinosaur floor walk
/ch/ tch ture match adventure
/ar/ al a half* father*
/or/ a water
schwa in longer words: different
/o/ a want
/air/ ear ere bear there
/ur/ ear learn
/r/ wr wrist
/s/ st sc whistle science
/c/ ch school
/sh/ ch chef
/z/ ze freeze
schwa at the end of words: actor		 once laugh because eye
*The tricky words ‘half’ and ‘father’ may not be pronounced as this in some regional pronunciations; in which case, they should not be treated as such.

 

Summer 1: Phonics screening check review – no new GPCs or tricky words
Summer 2 Phase 5 graphemes New tricky words
/ai/ eigh aigh ey ea eight straight grey break
/n/ kn gn knee gnaw
/m/ mb thumb
/ear/ ere eer here deer
/zh/ su si treasure vision
/j/ dge bridge
/i/ y crystal
/j/ ge large
/sh/ ti ssi si ci potion mission mansion delicious
/or/ augh our oar ore daughter pour oar more		 busy beautiful pretty hour
move improve parents shoe