A systematic and structured approach with built-in consolidation and revision to ensure every child succeeds

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.Decodable reading practice throughout teaching resources andaligned decodable readers from Floppy’s Phonics Fiction and Traditional Tales. 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:

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 Floppy’s Phonics programme teaches the letter/s-sound correspondences of the English alphabetic code explicitly and comprehensively for reading, spelling and handwriting:This guidance document describes the importance of setting up, maintaining and sharing a ‘phonics folder’ for every learner. All staff at Lord Scudamore Academy are unanimous in recommending Floppy’s Phonics as a truly inspiring phonics programme that has driven reading in our school to the highest standard.” 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.