Phonics at Middleton
Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) is a way of teaching children to read,
write and spell. The sounds that children learn are taught in a specific,
systematic order (not alphabetically) so that children can begin to
build words from these sounds as early as possible. Phonics supports children to hear, identify and link the sounds that letters make (phonemes) to what the letters look like when written down (graphemes). This helps children to recognise and read words, using knowledge of the sounds to read new or unfamiliar words.
The SSP programme that we have adopted at Middleton is Rocket Phonics, part of the Reading Planet scheme.
For an overview of our approach to phonics within the Middleton curriculum, click here:
The following links have more detailed information on Rocket Phonics:
- Parents' Guide to Rocket Phonics
- Parent Meeting Presentation
- Accessing Rocket Phonics e-books at home
- Rocket Phonics Sounds Mat 1
- Rocket Phonics Sounds Mat 2
- Rocket Phonics Sounds Mat 3
- Rocket Phonics Sounds Mat 4
- Rocket Phonics and the Ofsted Inspection Framework
- Middleton letter formations and rhymes
The following videos are available to support parents with their understanding of how phonics is taught. We are currently compiling videos of our own staff delivering phonics sessions which we will upload here shortly:
- Reception blending session
- Reception segmenting session
- Year 1 blending session
- Year 1 segmenting session