At Riverside, we use the Oxford Reading Tree Floppy’s Phonics Teaching Programme and associated reading scheme.
Floppy’s phonics is a comprehensive and systematic phonics teaching programme is used daily to rigorously teach and practise phonics and enable children to read fluently by the end of KS1. .It includes motivational practice through fully decodable fiction and non-fiction texts correlated to Oxford Reading Tree Stages 1-6.
Daily routines are established for blending, spelling and handwriting so that children learn, revise and practise every letter-sound correspondence following the same process
For more information about Riverside’s approach to phonics and early reading, please read our school Policy:
Phonics Policy
Progression and resources
Mini Alphabetic Code Chart
Soundmat Level 1+
Soundmat Level 2
Soundmat level 2 and 3
Soundmats 3 and 4
Timetabling guidance
Split Digraphs
Long Vowel Sounds
Mrs N Beard
Phonics Lead
If you have any questions regarding the curriculum, please email our Curriculum lead and Deputy Head, Mrs Watts.