Reading

At Warren School we recognise that reading is a key life skill. In addition to teaching children the skills to become independent and fluent readers, we aim to develop a true love of reading in children.  This starts from EYFS, where phonics is taught daily and continues throughout school. We recognise that Phonics does not work for all children and reading is taught through signs, symbols and high-frequency words. Books at Warren school are adapted to each child's needs, whether it is using PEC's/audio or large print. 

Phonics

Jolly Phonics

Jolly Phonics, teaches children to read and write using synthetic phonics, which is widely recognised as the most effective way to teach children to read and write in English. 

Jolly Phonics is a comprehensive programme, based on the proven, fun and muliti-sensory synthetic phonics method that gets children reading and writing from an early age. This means that we teach letter sounds as opposed to the alphabet. These 42 letter sounds are phonic building blocks that children, with the right tools, use to decode the English language. When reading a word, they recognise the letters and blend together the respective sounds; when writing a word they identify the sounds and write down the corresponding letters. These skills are called blending and segmenting. These are two of the five skills that children need to master phonics: