Reading and Teaching.

The link below will take you to our rational for teaching reading at Foxwood Academy. You will find some examples of sequencing and planning and examples of questioning techniques and other useful guidance. As ever, if you need any more information please contact us.

Reading at Foxwood

Help at home.

These short clips might help with the development of reading and phonics at home. (Under construction)

New phonemes	How does your mouth move with new sounds?
Hear phonemes (sounds)	Blending words from sounds
Break it down	We say it fast, you break it down into the sounds (phonemes)
Quick erase	Recapping phonemes and encouraging blending
Read GPCs	Recapping pure sounds.
Say it fast	The opposite of break it down. Teacher sounds out the word and the children blend it together
Stretch and count	Counting the phonemes and blending the words
Stretch and read	Modelling the sounding and blending
Write new graphene	Tips on writing basic letters
Spelling and reading after phonics	Next steps

The actions below are some of our recent developments to help with reading across Foxwood.

Action 12 - Ready to start!

Last phonics training session before we start across primary and KS3.

Action 11 - Advice for Parents

This week we had our first parent meeting on teaching reading. We will be providing more details shortly but these slides will help you if you missed the session:

Parents Meeting - Reading March 2022.pptx

Action 10 - Staff Training on Phonics Scheme

Today was our first introduction to our new phonics scheme. Success for All. We have over 6 hours of full on training but we’re excited to be involved.