Phonics

Phonics

At Lion we focus on teaching children a range of skills to enable them to be successful readers that fosters a life long love of reading.

We teach phonics through a Systematic Synthetic Phonics Programme based on the DfE approved programme, Essential Letters and Sounds. 

Phonics is taught daily and designed and focused to teach children how to read through the act of decoding and blending. Teaching a Systematic Synthetic Phonics Programme teaches the children the link between the sounds of our language (phonemes) and the written representation of these sounds (graphemes), or the spellings of the sounds contained within the English language.