Little Wandle at Home First Phonics Flashcards for Reception

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Get parents and carers involved and inspired by their child’s Little Wandle reading journey using our practical guidance, ready-to-use presentations, impactful book bag leaflets and shareable resources.

If you are a Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised member, the Little Wandle Fluency teaching notes, word cards and guidance for use with Big Cat for Little Wandle Fluency books (Year 2+) are included in your subscription. Find our full Reception and Year 1 teaching programme overview here to see what your child will learn and when. Working closely with a diverse range of authors and illustrators ensures children and their worlds are reflected in the books they read, which include an exciting mix of stories and non-fiction. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The At Home cards are designed for use by parents with children who are learning phonics using the Little Wandle programme at school.One of the ‘recommended activities’ is getting your child to identify the image before identifying the sound; this was a non-starter in these cases. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics.

The Little Wandle complete systematic synthetic phonics programme has been developed for schools by schools, and is fully validated by the Department for Education. There are even some fun recommended activities that come with the cards for those who are less confident with phonics. Discuss the pictures, enjoy the story, predict what might happen next, use different voices for the characters, explore the facts in a non-fiction book. Support children to practise their learning with our Use in class downloads which include grapheme mats, Grow the code charts and letter formation practice sheets. My son is following the Little Wandle phonics programme at school and I’m keen to support his learning at home.Although your child will be taught to read at school, you can have a huge impact on their reading journey by continuing their practice at home. A good resource to send home/put in reading diaries so children can practice their sounds with their adults. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

It’s generally advised to introduce both capitals and lower case letters at the same time to avoid confusion down the line (I’m an ex teacher). If your child is reading it with little help, please don’t worry that it’s too easy – your child needs to develop fluency and confidence in reading.In partnership with Collins we offer a full range of classroom resources and 250+ decodable Big Cat books fully matched to our progression. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.