FFT Success for All Phonics

Inspiring a lifelong love of reading

Pupils learning with Success for all phonics

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Age Range: Early years5-7

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FFT Success for All Phonics is a complete systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) programme that nurtures a love of reading and writing.

Aimed at nursery children upwards and pioneered by the Success for All Foundation, FFT’s second generation programme is offered on a not-for-profit basis with books and resources that bring learning to life.

A complete Phonics teaching programme

Validated by the Department for Education
Based on the Letters and Sounds progression
Provides all your teachers with a complete set of teaching resources, online and in print
Clear reading, writing and spelling activities through the six phases of Letters and Sounds
Includes FFT’s Spelling & Reading package that combines Spelling with the Jungle Club and Routes to Reading.
Simple, cost-effective subscription service with all resources, training and support included
Includes our catch-up programme, FFT Tutoring with the Lightning Squad
Supported by our Reading Assessment Programme, from the experts at FFT
Comprehensive easy-to-use resources for learning at home via the Parent Portal

Costs: £1450 one-off cost

Subscription
from £1450 for 1 form entry

A simple annual subscription provides schools with online access to all of the teacher resources, reading books, training and support, along with a core set of printed teacher resources.

Trial Options: Please contact our Literacy Subscriptions team who will discuss options.

FAQs

QHas your programme been validated by the Department for Education?: AYes. FFT Success for All Phonics is a systematic synthetic phonics teaching programme, validated by the Department for Education.
QHow long have schools been using the programme and what impact has it had in schools?: AFFT’s Success for All Phonics is a second generation phonics programme that draws upon academic research, best practice and school feedback gathered over the last 20 years. Here’s some of our recent feedback and you can take a look at our case studies at fft.org.uk/phonics/case-studies/ “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.
QDo you have decodable readers and are they available in an electronic format?: AYes. As part of your subscription, you will receive access to 128 fully decodable books online, matched to the Letters and Sounds progression. You can also buy copies in print. Our Shared Reading books have been especially written for the programme - you do not need to purchase any additional books from publishers to use Success for All Phonics. They include a wide range of genres, engaging characters and familiar contexts that children will be excited to read. We also provide access to these via a ‘Parent Portal’ and much of this is free to view at parents.fft.org.uk. 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.
QDo you have actions, rhymes or mnemonics in your programme?: AYes, we do! To support children, we have a fun daily Alphabet Chant that includes dynamic actions. You can see it at The Alphabet Chant. Each GPC we teach includes an engaging picture and a mnemonic phrase that help the children link the grapheme to the phoneme that is being presented. You can view these on our Parent Portal at vimeo.com/showcase/9340990. We also include helpful phrases for teaching letter formation, which you can view at parents.fft.org.uk/phonic-and-writing-phrases/
QDo you have a Year 2 programme?: AOur Year 2 programme is now available as a free add-on for FFT Phonics subscribers or as a standalone programme from just £175. It includes a range of materials to support children in further developing their literacy skills. 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 Year 3! 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.
Q How do you use the decodable readers and how many do you need?: AThe decodable readers are to be used by children, in pairs, as part of the daily reading lesson. These lessons will be approximately 15 minutes long for Reception children, and will gradually rise to 30 minutes for Year 1 children. Daily lesson plans are available for use with all 128 decodable readers. Optional printed sets of readers are available for purchase for use alongside all digital materials that are included within the subscription. Our 128 decodable readers can be purchased in bundles of one copy, 15 copies or 30 copies of each book.
QIs letter formation taught within FFT Success for All Phonics?: AYes, we have guidance and resources for teaching letter formation these include phrases and teacher support materials that can be used beyond Success for All Phonics lessons. We also have guidance and resources for teaching upper- and lower-case letter formation in the daily lessons. We do not teach cursive as Success for All Phonics follows the DfE guidance.
QDo you include Nonsense Words?: AYes. Nonsense words are introduced into the Success for All Phonics Programme at the beginning of Year 1. Children will have weekly opportunities to practise reading a range of nonsense words in preparation for the Year 1 Phonics Screening Test. In addition to this they are also included in our online assessment tool.
QCan I use other decodable reading books with your programme?: AYes, you can use other decodable books from other Reading Schemes with FFT Success for All Phonics. To support schools, we have produced a mapping document that shows when the books from some of the other popular reading schemes can also be used with FFT’s Success for All Phonics. 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.
QDo you need to group by ability?: AThe sessions can either be taught as whole class or in groups. It is completely flexible.
QHow does your programme support pupils who need a different pace or more Phase 1?: AIf your school has a nursery or you have older children who need additional support, you may wish to use our First Steps to Phonics programme. This Letters & Sounds based programme is specifically designed for children who need to develop Phase 1 skills, and who need to secure initial grapheme-phoneme correspondence for Phase 2 and the early Phase 3 GPCs. Throughout the programme, children are explicitly taught a range of progressive phonics skills such as: blending, segmenting, letter recognition and formation through fun, engaging activities that use key resources, both digitally and in print. First Steps to Phonics is included in your Phonics subscription and digital materials are available to freely download from the Phonics Portal. For schools wishing to purchase additional printed materials, these are priced at only £70 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.
QHow does FFT Success for All Phonics support the Reading Framework?: AAs an evidence-based programme, Success for All Phonics includes all the best practice guidance as outlined in the new Reading Framework. Opportunities for spoken language, exposure to high quality vocabulary, strong routines and high expectations for pupil engagement and our Co-operative Learning approach ensures that children are fully engaged and interact for the whole lesson. This pedagogy along with our high-quality training and materials and resources ensure children are listening and talking with a partner in every lesson.
QWill children cover all the content required for the Phonics Screening Check?: AChildren working at the expected level will master all the phonic knowledge and skills required for success in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.
QHow do I support pupils who are working at a higher level?: AOur programme is ambitious and we suggest starting the pupils at the highest possible level based on their assessment results from the Reading Assessment Programme (RAP). These assessments not only highlights pupils’ GPC knowledge but also provide details on pupils’ blending, CEW knowledge, fluency and comprehension. 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 Year 2 programme; please see our FAQ ‘Do you have a Year 2 programme?’
QHow are Common Exception Words taught?: ACommon Exception Words (CEWs) include GPCs that are an exception to what children have been taught. CEWs are introduced systematically in Phonics lessons (starting at Step 13) and in the Shared Readers (from Step 4). The progression includes all of the usual CEWs from L&S 2007. Children are taught to decode the GPCs they have learnt and to recognise and remember the ‘tricky’ grapheme for reading and spelling. Shared Readers will only contain a small number of newly introduced CEWs directly linked to the Scope and Sequence (view sample).
QHow does FFT Success for All Phonics support with assessment?: AFFT Success for All Phonics provides a comprehensive set of both formative and summative phonics assessment materials, to ensure that children, teachers and school leaders know exactly which phonics skills have been mastered at each stage. Formative assessments should happen daily to help you identify teaching points, address them quickly and provide ‘keep-up’ for pupils who need support. 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: https://fft.org.uk/literacy/reading-assessment-programme/
QHow do you support children to keep up and catch up?: AEnsuring that all children make progress and reach age-related expectations is fundamental to FFT Success for All’s mission. For a range of reasons, some children require additional support and teaching. To support your children, we provide both formative and summative assessment resources. Please see our question on assessment here. 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 https://fft.org.uk/tutoring/ 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.
QCan the programme be used with older pupils?: AYes, older pupils will benefit from the programme. The decodable readers have been designed to ensure that older pupils do not feel that they are reading material for younger pupils. As your subscription includes FFT Tutoring with Lightning Squad, a game based interactive online platform, you have a wide range of resources to support older pupils who still require phonic and reading support. FFT's range of literacy products now includes Reading Quest, a programme specifically designed for older pupils with age-appropriate resources.
Q Have you any advice or guidance for smaller/larger schools to implement the programme?: AOur programme has been used by a wide range of schools for over 20 years; as such we have a range of implementation options based on your size, staff availability and pupil needs. These will be outlined in your introductory sessions and your dedicated set up sessions to enable you to get the best out of the programme.
QHow do you support Phase 6/Year 2 Word Recognition?: APhase 6 / Year 2 Word Recognition is supported by the final stages of the Success for All Phonics programme and its application to the reading of parallel decodable texts and real books. They will also be applying the principles of spelling to their own writing at this point. In this phase, children will have already learned the most common GPCs and a substantial number of alternative spellings for the same sounds. 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.
QWhat support do I get to set up, train staff and implement FFT Success for All Phonics?: AAs part of your subscription, we provide a structured online training programme for teachers, teaching assistants and school leaders that can be accessed both live and on-demand. These sessions will include a session for phonics/early reading leaders on how to set up the programme, organise training and answer other key questions to ensure you get off to the best start. In addition to the training offer outlined in our marketing materials and on our website, we will also provide a full suite of on-demand training videos that include in-class footage showing the programme in action. 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: fft.org.uk/training-events/improve-literacy-teaching. Staff can access answers to common questions at any time of the day via our comprehensive Knowledge Centre, which can be freely accessed at https://support.fft.org.uk/knowledgecentre/s/.
QWhat support for parents and carers is available?: AAll schools that subscribe to FFT Success for All Phonics have access to a growing range of materials to support phonics and reading at home via our online Parent Portal. Much of this is free to view at parents.fft.org.uk but 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.
QIf children are behind their year group expectation, where do I start them in the programme?: AOur FAQ about catch up hopefully provides the detail you need. It is really important that you consider what your pupils’ skill gaps are and what support they need to ensure they are staying on track through providing support as outlined in the FAQ on this topic. For children who cannot distinguish individual phonemes, the teaching of reading through a systematic synthetic phonics programme in Reception should not be delayed and this will typically develop as a result of daily phonics teaching.
QWhat font do you use in your programme?: AWe use Sassoon Infant Md for all our pupil-facing resources. It can be obtained through various font suppliers online, but as it is copyrighted we cannot share it with schools. The font has several style options besides the default setting. We used Style Set 6 in all our materials. Instructions for changing style sets can be found here.
QWhat other resources are available?: AAll your daily teaching materials are available to download as part of your membership. These include wall friezes, letter formation guidance, Pupil Practice booklets, Desk mats, Green & Red word cards and more.
QWhat further training and support do you provide?: AIn addition to the training offer outlined in our marketing materials and on our website, we will also provide a full suite of on-demand training videos that include in-class footage showing the programme in action. As our Phonics subscription includes our tutoring programme, you can also access a full day’s training, free of charge, for any staff using the programme. We also provide regular ongoing CPD for schools that are detailed on our Phonics Portal along with regular CPD events that are open to any school. You can find more details at fft.org.uk/training-events/improve-literacy-teaching
QCan I talk to someone about FFT Success for All Phonics?: AYes, please register your interest on our form and include details of specific questions so we can answer your questions. We will get back in touch with you as soon as we can. Please also register for one of our briefing sessions, details of which will be posted soon.