Implementation

• The lesson plans are designed to be 45 minutes in length for Years 5/6. There are follow-up activities to each lesson to increase the exposure time in a week
• Learning in year 5 and 6 is planned in two-year cycles due to the children learning in mixed age classes.
• The lessons are designed to be progressive and build on prior learning, moving from word to sentence level over the four years
• In Years 5 and 6 some of the same structures are revisited but only by completing the two year cycle will all the knowledge and skills be covered
• The lesson plans include ideas for support for the less able and to extend the more able
• The lesson activities are challenging, varied and interactive and develop listening, reading, speaking and writing skills
• Interactive whiteboard resources with audio support are provided; purchase of a set of storybooks and phonics book is a requisite to access the scheme and additional resources are recommended particularly for songs and rhymes
• The choice of vocabulary ensures exposure to all the key phonic sounds and ability to build sentences using grammatical knowledge
• Who teaches the scheme to ensure high quality lessons is at the discretion of the school but linguistic up-skilling and methodology training is available to support its delivery as well as detailed lesson plans linked to ready-made resource templates and audio recordings of stories and rhymes read by a native speaker
• It is expected that formative assessment in each lesson informs the planning and teaching of subsequent lesson plans