Once children exit the Little Wandle phonics programme and have passed the fluency assessment, they progress on to the Little Wandle Fluency books. Children will read longer chapter books over a period of 3 weeks. Each week children will have 2 teacher led sessions working on a range of skills through these texts. The sessions deliberately and purposefully incorporate opportunities to embed and further develop the phonetic and orthographic codes. Time is spent discussing wide-ranging and rich vocabulary as well as building fluency through research-informed practice including choral reading and echo reading. Comprehension activities also talk place using a dialogic talk approach to facilitate interesting and meaningful discussions.
Once children have completed the fluency programme (typically in year 4), they progress to reading from a range of carefully curated texts. Children have reading practice four times a week, with at least one session a week being adult-led. These sessions are taught by a fully trained adult in groups.
Each adult-led reading practice session is based on a specific section/ chapter of the book. Sessions include:
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- decoding of key vocabulary, if required
- discussion around the vocabulary being used within the section/ chapter
- opportunities to further develop fluency through rehearsal and repeated reading
- comprehension of what has been read through a range of approaches including use of the dialogic talk approach
