Building Confident Little Readers

In Reception and Year 1, we are dedicated to building a love of reading. The Little Wandle Guided Reading Programme helps us to do that, using a structured, phonics-based approach that nurtures confident, independent readers.

Each of the three Little Wandle reading practice sessions focuses on a different skill of fluent reading. Read 1: decoding - using phonics to segment and blend words. Read 2: prosody - reading aloud with appropriate meaning, stress and intonation. Read 3: comprehension - showing understanding of the book’s events, characters and information.

How you can support at home - your child will bring home a Little Wandle book that they’ve practised in class. Listen as they read, encourage them with questions and explore the story together.

Through Little Wandle, we are helping each child become a lifelong lover of books. Thank you for supporting their reading journey.