Should we display the Little Wandle grapheme cards next to children’s names?

We suggest you display children’s names next to photos of their lovely little faces, rather than our grapheme cards.

Here's why ...

Our focus on laying the best possible foundations for formal phonics in Reception, means we encourage you to focus on the phonemes rather than the graphemes.

Names can be some of the most phonetically irregular of words, (let’s take Charlotte as an example), and so should you link names to the grapheme (‘C’) or the phoneme (/sh/)? We think you should focus children’s attention to the initial sound in their name and not confuse them by linking it to an image.