Green words

[Meita]

Our school has sent out curriculum information and the info for Y1 and Y2 refers to 'green words'.

I have googled a bit and found that RWI uses 'green words' but is there any other phonics scheme that does?

Until recently our school did Jolly Phonics but there have been lots of new teachers in EY/KS1 so I am wondering if they might have switched? And to what?

DS is only in reception and they are doing some kind of phonics teaching that doesn't seem to belong to any 'scheme' (no 'green words' either) but I am interested to know what he might be doing next year.

Pretty poor if they refer to 'green words' without explaining what it means.

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Hm I suppose the Y1 and Y2 parents HAVE been informed about their children's (new?) phonics scheme. It's just that YR are seemingly doing something different (no green words) and it makes sense that we reception parents haven't been told much about things that won't concern us until next year. But I'm still curious.

I guess I'll ask one of the Y1 mums.

I have taught RWI in reception and Y2, green words are fully decodable. For example cat c-a-t, chop c-h-o-p. It basically just practise how to sound words out then blend them together, there are different words for different phases as new sounds are introduced. Then there are red words, in. Other schemes they are tricky words that can not be sounded out like said.

Green & Red words are a feature of the RWI programme. So it may be that the school now uses RWI rather than Jolly Phonics or use RWI in KS1.

All words can be sounded out (Red, Green and tricky) ... Some common words contain sounds/spellings for sounds that the child hasn't learnt yet so they need to be taught the new knowledge in order to read them.