Floppy’s Phonics is in line with the Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) teaching principles described in the ‘English programmes of study: key stages 1 and 2 – National curriculum in England’ which is statutory from September 2014. Debbie has crafted magic, creating an approach to phonics that - put simply - works! Adopting Floppy's Phonics Sounds and Letters in 2011, we were delighted that 70% of our Y1 pupils secured the pass rate. In 2013, this has risen to 93%, and KS1 standards in reading, writing (and maths!) are up as the children are engaged, focused, motivated learners. This isn't about phonics - it's a pedagogical approach based on expectation, challenge, autonomy and rigour. The kids love it - and so do the staff!" Floppy’s Phonics is a phonics program developed by Oxford University Press. It consists of six stages of learning that help children develop their phonics skills.

This is a detailed description of the ‘Teaching and Learning Sequence’ delivered with a two-session approach. It can support teacher training and evaluation of the Floppy’s Phonics programme. A step-by-step and flexible DfE validated phonics programme that engages children in reading from the outset. Developed by highly respected phonics expert Debbie Hepplewhite MBE, is perfect for schools who want high-quality phonics teaching resources and professional development in a range of online formats, for full confidence in teaching phonics. A systematic and structured approach with built-in consolidation and revision to ensure every child succeeds The Floppy’s Phonics programme teaches the letter/s-sound correspondences of the English alphabetic code explicitly and comprehensively for reading, spelling and handwriting: Stage 3: Building Confidence – Children learn new sounds including j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th.This paper might be helpful for teaching assistants new to the teaching profession and for informing parents. The Potential of Alphabetic Code Charts and the Two-Pronged Approach to Synthetic Phonics Teaching: Systematic and Incidental

These are easy-to-use posters to achieve the same phonics routines across the school – also suitable for sharing with parents. Then the children will really start to read! They will learn to recognise the different letters or pairs of letters (graphemes) in a word, say the separate sounds ( phonemes) slowly, then put ( blend) them together. For example, they will be taught that the word ‘boat’ can be separated out ( segmented) into ‘b-oa-t’ which represents the sounds bbb-oh– ttt. They can blend these sounds into the word ‘boat’ The ORT Floppy’s Phonics systematic synthetic phonics programme provides you with all the structure and resources you need to deliver really effective synthetic phonics teaching for all children – as well as enriching their vocabulary and language comprehension. Next, they will learn how sounds can be put together ( blended) to make words. For example, they will learn that the sounds of the letters ‘m-a-t’ blend together to make the word ‘mat’. Your child will then learn more sounds and will start blending them too.This paper describes the usefulness of Alphabetic Code Charts and the rationale for the Two-Pronged Approach. The content of the interactive CD-ROMs has been moved to a digital subscription platform for necessary technological reasons. A huge advantage of this change is that parents and carers can now be provided with free access to the interactive platform via their children’s schools. This amounts to providing ‘home’ with exceptional audio-visual ‘interactive’ content which helps in developing language comprehension along with the phonics content for reading, spelling and writing.

This poster provides the kind of language and practice that teachers can apply all the time to teach and support spelling in the wider curriculum whilst referring to the main display Alphabetic Code Chart (which should be displayed from floor level and easily accessible for the teacher and children).

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This document lists the recommended phonics routines for the three core phonics skills and their sub-skills and then (in red) includes aspects of the phonics routines to consider for honing practice to a high-quality level aiming for consistency and continuity across the school. The ‘Simple View of Reading Model’ was adopted to replace the ‘Searchlights Reading Strategies’ on Sir Jim Rose’s recommendation in 2006. These diagrams will be helpful for training purposes and professional understanding. They help to generate collegial conversations as you reflect on pupils’ reading or writing profiles for your general literacy planning or intervention as required. In the ‘Simple View of Reading Model’, ‘language comprehension’ refers to the levels of SPOKEN language and not reading comprehension. For learners with English as a new or additional language, you can plot the learner twice – once for the mother tongue and once for the English language to achieve a fuller understanding of the learner’s literacy profile. Update 2020: Throughout 2019, Debbie has worked with Oxford University Press to refresh and update the resources of the Floppy’s Phonics programme. Notable changes include: Oxford Reading Tree Floppy’s Phonics ‘Teaching Sequence’ – An overview of the programme for leaders and teachers At 50 mins 28 secs (slide 57 on assessment), I refer to the first bullet point, “From sound to print for decoding”. This should be, “From print to sound for decoding”. I continue with the second bullet point, “From print to sound for encoding”. This should be, “From sound to print for encoding”. This error is on the video and the printable slide, and in the audio commentary. (Thank you to Alison for drawing this error to my attention.) Debbie Hepplewhite

This description of the three phonics core skills and their sub-skills will enable you to plan and review the balance of your phonics teaching and also analyse/identify specific difficulties of children who are making slower progress. Use a biro or highlighter to indicate gaps in teaching or weaknesses in learning. Provide additional teaching where gaps in learning are identified. Decodable reading practice throughout teaching resources andaligned decodable readers from Floppy’s Phonics Fiction and Traditional Tales. Children, staff and parents all love Floppy’s Phonics! We have been using this high quality, rigorous programme for the last eight years and have been delighted with the results we have seen. Floppy’s Phonics engages the children with its familiar characters and supports both teaching and learning with CD-ROMs; classroom visual aids, the structured set of phonics books; cumulative, decodable, activity sheets and texts, plus planning and assessment materials.Stage 1: Starting to Read – Children learn the sounds s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d. They also learn to blend sounds to read simple words. Previously there were three teachers’ handbooks. The content of the third handbook ‘Planning, Assessment and Resources’ has now been moved to ‘Teaching Handbook 1’ and ‘Teaching Handbook 2’ or to the digital platform.