How do I challenge children in Year 1 in class who are already confident with the phonics I am teaching?

Programme developer, Charlotte Raby asked teacher Jess, who you will recognise from lots of our videos:

How do I challenge children in Year 1 in class who are already confident with the phonics I am teaching?

Here’s what she told me:

“We have all children in phonics lessons together so that they are all able to practise decoding skills, and how to read fluently – phonics harms no one!

For challenge in our Year 1 phonics lessons, we ensure we extend children in various ways:

Reading words: we encourage these children to read the words fluently, without overt blending."

Please refer to our comprehensive blog post for more information.