Phonics for Nursery
Give Nursery children a head start with reading
Read Write Inc. Phonics for Nursery is for children in their last term of Nursery. It supports pre-school children’s literacy progress, including developing their language through storytimes and teaching phonics.
It provides the Nursery team with the tools they need to ensure every child learns to read confidently, right from the start.
The programme is published by Oxford University Press.
Our children love joining in with Fred Games – helping them blend sounds into words orally. Children learn the names of the pictures and the letter-sounds in the summer term. They go on to make such a strong start in Reception.”
Assistant Headteacher and EYFS Lead, Shoreditch Park Primary School, Hackney
How does Phonics for Nursery give children a head start with reading?
- Read Write Inc. Phonics for Nursery is designed specifically for nurseries and pre-school to encourage a love of reading from an early age.
- Children enjoy learning new sounds each day and reviewing previous sounds and words.
- Engaging activities help children understand that words are made up of sounds. Once they can read letters and blend sounds into words they read matched sound-blending books.
- Children grow their vocabulary through nursery rhymes, poems, songs and planned talk. And we show you how.
- Storytimes are the best they can be so children love and talk about the stories they hear. Our training films help you every step of the way.
- Parents and carers are involved from the start with our send-home Virtual Classroom films.
Online training films
Films to train staff on teaching phonics, handwriting, behaviour routines and storytime.
The Virtual Classroom
These films are perfect for the nursery and sending home for parents and carers to practise with their children.
Fred Talk
Help children understand that words are made up of sounds with Fred Games.
Training and support
The Virtual Classroom provides short films to use in the Nursery and at home. The lessons show children how to read letter-sounds, blend sounds into words, read whole words and write letters. It also includes films for oral blending and speedy practice of sounds.
The training films show you how to teach the activities in the Read Write Inc. Nursery Handbook. This includes how to:
- teach the phonics lessons
- establish behaviour routines
- encourage children to talk throughout the day
- prepare engaging storytimes.
Staff need a copy of the Read Write Inc. Phonics for Nursery Handbook before training. These are available from Oxford University Press.
The in-action films show teachers teaching the lessons to Nursery children.
The Package also includes a one-hour remote session with a trainer to set nurseries up for success.
For schools with a Read Write Inc. Phonics Training Package
All our training films and the Virtual Classroom are included on the School Portal as part of your Phonics Training Package. Your school’s Reading Leader will know what to do.
For schools without the Read Write Inc. Phonics Training Package
Our standalone Phonics for Nursery Package includes:
- one-year subscription to the Nursery online training films and Virtual Classroom
- one-hour remote trainer support to set you up for success.
Cost: £300 + VAT
Essential resources to help you teach the programme
Read Write Inc. Phonics for Nursery resources, published by Oxford University Press, provide essential support to help you teach the programme.
They include a Handbook, Speed Sound cards, Green Word Cards, a wall frieze, Sound Blending Books and a Fred Frog beanie toy. Resources are suitable for pre-school children and are recommended for the term before they start in Reception (P1).
All resources are available to buy from the OUP website and other school suppliers, or through your local OUP Partnership Manager.
