FFT Success for All Phonics

“It was daunting to change the way we teach phonics, but FFT Success for All Phonics removed a lot of the stress and workload for our staff. The guides are easy to use, the training is accessible, the reading resources have provided challenge for our children and the Parent Portal has been well accessed to support learning to read at home. For those learners that find it hard to keep up, The Tutoring with the Lightning Squad intervention is fun, engaging and progressive.” — Lisa Loxton, Deputy Head, The Rissington School.

“We’ve been really impressed! The Shared Readers are a real success; the children are so eager to read them each week! The vocabulary has excited them and improved their reading skills.” — Isabel Stewart, Foundation Lead, St John the Evangelist School.

We also provide access to these via a ‘Parent Portal’ and much of this is free to view here. Subscribed schools also have access to a full digital library of our Shared Readers, along with read-aloud videos of each book to support home reading. To give you a flavour please find a free-to-view link of a Shared Reader being read out loud.

Spelling: Spelling with the Jungle Club is an online platform that provides teachers with fun and engaging daily spelling lessons. Digital, interactive sessions are designed to motivate children and allow teachers to track progress through Year 2 National Curriculum objectives for Spelling. Rooted in evidence-based research, Spelling with the Jungle Club is a unique spelling adventure that ensures spelling sticks. Due to its success, our spelling programme has been expanded into Years 3 and 4!

Reading: Routes to Reading is a second-generation Year 2 reading programme that provides teachers with a full year's worth of planning and resources to ensure reading success. Easy to use and adaptable, children continue their reading journey from Year 1 by developing reading fluency, comprehension and vocabulary, via a wide range of specially written, engaging texts. The full range of pupil and teaching resources for the Year 2 programme is provided digitally, free of charge, for phonics schools to print or customise as they see fit. Printed copies are available for a small fee.

The reading books and schemes we have mapped to FFT Success for All Phonics are: Floppy’s Phonics (Oxford University Press), Bug Club (Pearson), Rising Stars Rocket Phonics (Hodder), Big Cat Phonics (Collins), Scholastic Phonics Book Bag (*), Little Wandle Phonics (Collins / Big Cat). Please get in touch for a complimentary copy of this document.

For schools wishing to purchase additional printed materials, these are priced at only £65 for a core set of teaching materials. Training is also included as part of our existing suite of online sessions, again included in your subscription, bookable through the Phonics Portal.

If a child is working above the expectations which the RAP assesses against for all skills, then consider if they need to move on to the next year group’s programme of study for word reading. If this is the case, ensure that they are provided with reading material that matches their phonics knowledge. To support in this further, we are also releasing a Spelling and Reading programme; please see our FAQ ‘Do you have a Year 2 programme?’

In terms of summative assessment, as part of your school’s phonics subscription you have full access and training to FFT’s Reading Assessment Programme. We provide a whole suite of training on Reading Assessment Programme; you can sign up to a live information session and find out more on the Reading Assessment Programme webpage here: Reading Assessment Programme

Once you know your pupils’ needs, you can provide ‘keep-up’ sessions using our programme, advice and training. For pupils who need more Phase 1 or a different starting pace to catch up, you can use our First Steps to Phonics Programme, please see the FAQ on this here. For pupils in Years 1-6, we have our popular intervention: FFT’s Tutoring with the Lightning Squad. Please see here for details of how this can support your pupils to catch up. All of these resources, and full training for them, are included in your FFT Success for All’s Phonics subscription.

As they near the end of the programme, children will have an opportunity to read a short text extract, identify/compare words containing a variety of the focus GPCs and compare and apply spellings through word games and other activities. Please see the sample materials for further information. You will notice that our Scope and Sequence (view sample) includes content from the National Curriculum for word reading up to the end of KS1.

All the training and support provided to schools for Success for All Phonics can be accessed on-demand, online, or face to face (at an additional cost). We provide a comprehensive menu of ongoing training and support detailed on our Phonics Portal along with regular events that are open to any schools, you can find these here. Staff can access answers to common questions at any time of the day via our comprehensive Knowledge Centre, which can be freely accessed here