Literacy Strategy                    

UK Department for Education and Skills (DfES)

Key Stage 1

• Listening
  2) To listen, understand and respond to others, pupils should be taught to:
  identify and respond to sound patterns in language [for example, alliteration, rhyme, word play, as measured by PhAB].
• Composition
• Spelling
  4) Pupils should be taught: Spelling strategies
  b) use their knowledge of sound-symbol relationships and phonological patterns [for example, consonant clusters and vowel phonemes]
• Checking spelling
  i) identify reasons for misspellings.
• Reading strategies
  1) To read with fluency, accuracy, understanding and enjoyment, pupils should be taught to use a range of strategies to make sense of what they read.
  They should be taught:
  Phonemic awareness and phonic knowledge
  a) hear, identify, segment and blend phonemes in words
  b) sound and name the letters of the alphabet
  c) link sound and letter patterns, exploring rhyme, alliteration and other sound patterns
  d) identify syllables in words
  e) recognise that the same sounds may have different spellings and that the same spellings may relate to different sounds
• Phonemic awareness and phonic knowledge
• National Literacy Strategy Framework for Teaching and Progression in Phonics (Comments pertaining to Phonomena, interspersed in italics).
  Literacy... involves speaking and listening which are an essential part of... the Framework.
  
  Literate primary pupils should:
  
  All teachers know that pupils become successful readers by learning to use a range of strategies to get at the meaning of a text.
  
  

  These strategies are:

  • read and write with confidence, fluency and understanding; Phonomena training enhances basic skills underlying both reading and writing.
  • be able to orchestrate a full range of reading cues (phonic, graphic, syntactic, contextual) to monitor their reading and correct their own mistakes; Phonomena training directly assists phonics.
  • understand the sound and spelling system and use this to read and spell accurately;
    Phonomena builds an understanding and discrimination of the sounds of English. There are four main components of listening, each skill building on the previous, widely accepted in audiology/education/speech language arenas: Detection (recognising presence or absence of sound) Discrimination (determining if two sounds are the same or different) Identification (recognising or labelling the sound or word) Comprehension (understands what the sound or word means)
  • phonic (sound and spelling)
  • knowledge of context
  • grammatical knowledge
  • word recognition and graphic knowledge
  
  
  

  Pupils should be taught to:

  • discriminate between the separate sounds in words; This is exactly what Phonomena does.
  • learn the letters and letter combinations most commonly used to spell those sounds; Phonomena training of phonemes aids recognition of letter combinations.
  • read words by sounding out and blending their separate parts; Phonomena helps pupils to sound out the parts of words.
  • write words by combining the spelling patterns of their sounds. Phonomena trains basic listening skills vital to this aim.

Key Stage 2