The Faith in Phonics® series aims to complement a school’s existing reading scheme with decodable texts, providing a Christian faith focus. The books will enable young children to read Bible stories for themselves. With adult support, the reflections and questions provided at the end of each story will help children to apply the stories, and their Christian virtues, to their everyday lives, thus reinforcing the school ethos.

Religious education makes a significant contribution to the overall knowledge pupils need in life. Faith in Phonics seeks to assist schools achieve the three pillars of the curriculum:substantive knowledge, ways of knowing, and personal knowledge.

Set 1 of books cover alphabet letter-sounds (marked pink), digraphs (marked yellow) trigraphs and a few common alternative spelling patterns (marked blue). They can be used from Reception onwards. 

 

"The Faith in Phonics® teaching approach takes account of good research on effective ways of teaching children to read in the first two years of school. The books cover a wonderful selection of Bible stories from the Old and New Testaments, with suitably simple suggestions for drawing out their significance." 

JENNY CHEW 

 PHONICS EXPERT AWARDED AN OBE IN 2000 FOR SERVICES TO LITERACY