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Phonics Programme (THEP)
What is Tower Hamlets Education Partnership (THEP) Phonics?
It is a systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) programme that will support children to read, spell and write fluently. This programme has been created by practising teachers and leaders who teach phonics daily.
Each lesson is built around direct teaching sessions with extensive teacher-child interaction. Throughout each session, children are expected to actively engage in the learning.
What does the THEP Phonics Programme include?
This SSP programme includes everything a school needs to deliver high quality phonics lessons and interventions to ensure every child is a reader. All resources ensure fidelity to the programme and support all staff, from ECTs to the very experienced, to deliver high quality phonics provision.
Are there decodable reading books to match the THEP phonics programme?
The programme is fully mapped to Bug Club Phonics books with further reference to Big Cat Phonics books ensuring absolute fidelity between teaching programme and decodable reading books
Fully decodable Reading Books
As children move through the phonics programme, they will be reading materials closely matched to their phonics knowledge, both in school and at home. In this way, children will be encouraged to use their phonics skills and knowledge as their primary reading strategy. As children find that they can decode words quickly and independently, they will read more and more so that the number of words they can read automatically builds up.
It is expected that children will read decodable books from the previously taught set of GPCs whilst learning the new set of GPCs. This will ensure that children are only being expected to read books containing knowledge they know and can apply. Lesson planning and overviews clearly indicate this.
Children will be encouraged to re-read books to support growing confidence and working towards growing fluency. Children will also be encouraged to read aloud as well as silently for themselves. As pupils continue to progress through the phonics programme many pupils will begin reading longer texts with more complex words independently and with increasing fluency. This process culminates in a shift from learning to read to reading to learn. Children then move on to independently reading both for pleasure and for information.
Comprehension skills need to be taught to enable children to make sense of what they read, building upon what they already know and grow the desire to read more. Reading grows children's vocabulary as they encounter words they would rarely hear or use in everyday speech. Children who read widely and frequently also have more secure general knowledge.
What is Tower Hamlets Education Partnership (THEP) Phonics?
It is a systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) programme that will support children to read, spell and write fluently. This programme has been created by practising teachers and leaders who teach phonics daily.
Each lesson is built around direct teaching sessions with extensive teacher-child interaction. Throughout each session, children are expected to actively engage in the learning.
What does the THEP Phonics Programme include?
This SSP programme includes everything a school needs to deliver high quality phonics lessons and interventions to ensure every child is a reader. All resources ensure fidelity to the programme and support all staff, from ECTs to the very experienced, to deliver high quality phonics provision.
Are there decodable reading books to match the THEP phonics programme?
The programme is fully mapped to Bug Club Phonics books with further reference to Big Cat Phonics books ensuring absolute fidelity between teaching programme and decodable reading books
Fully decodable Reading Books
As children move through the phonics programme, they will be reading materials closely matched to their phonics knowledge, both in school and at home. In this way, children will be encouraged to use their phonics skills and knowledge as their primary reading strategy. As children find that they can decode words quickly and independently, they will read more and more so that the number of words they can read automatically builds up.
It is expected that children will read decodable books from the previously taught set of GPCs whilst learning the new set of GPCs. This will ensure that children are only being expected to read books containing knowledge they know and can apply. Lesson planning and overviews clearly indicate this.
Children will be encouraged to re-read books to support growing confidence and working towards growing fluency. Children will also be encouraged to read aloud as well as silently for themselves. As pupils continue to progress through the phonics programme many pupils will begin reading longer texts with more complex words independently and with increasing fluency. This process culminates in a shift from learning to read to reading to learn. Children then move on to independently reading both for pleasure and for information.
Comprehension skills need to be taught to enable children to make sense of what they read, building upon what they already know and grow the desire to read more. Reading grows children's vocabulary as they encounter words they would rarely hear or use in everyday speech. Children who read widely and frequently also have more secure general knowledge.
Parent Resources:
Term-by-term progression chart
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GPC, Tricky Word, and Publishers’ Decodable Book Chart
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Phase 2 and 3 grapheme information support sheet
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Useful book websites for parents:
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