Literacy (including phonics and reading)

Mixed Literacy Areas:

Phonics:

We place a great deal of importance on early reading and embrace synthetic phonics as a key tool for helping children to make sense of the sounds and letters which make up our spoken and written language. The school uses letters and sounds to help teach phonics. 

Reading:

Writing and letter formations

Correct formation of letters is taught, progressing to joined up writing when appropriate further up the school. See below for the letter formations that we teach at Balliol.

Spelling Support

• Phonics:
  • encourage your child to listen carefully to sounds in words
  • encourage them to write the sounds that they hear in order to help them make phonetically plausible attempts to spell words.
• Learning high frequency and key words – some words have to be learned from memory such as 'the'.
  • encourage children to learn the spellings of these words from memory and practice writing them.

Here is a list of the tricky words and key words that we use at Balliol in reception:

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