FFT Success for All Phonics
Inspiring a lifelong love of reading
What is FFT Success for All Phonics?
FFT Success for All Phonics is a complete systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) programme that has been validated by the Department for Education.
Aimed at nursery children upwards and pioneered by the Success for All Foundation, FFT’s second generation programme is offered on a not-for-profit basis and is a highly comprehensive offering.
Our ambition is to enable success for all children and inspire a lifelong love of reading.
Take a look…
Complete set of printed and online teaching resources
Reading assessment programme
Structured training and support
Reading tutoring programme
68 decodable reading books
Resources for both school and home
A complete Phonics teaching programme
Have a look at our sample evaluation materials
Look inside the reading books
In addition to the online resources, we also provide schools with a core set of printed teaching resources as part of the subscription. Schools can purchase class sets of the decodable reading books.
What schools are saying
Each step is small and achievable
We have found that this scheme really engages the children through clearly planned, progressive, achievable goals that make it possible for all children to succeed.
We have seen a huge improvement in the children's confidence and fluency as they begin to see themselves as a reader. Each step in the scheme is small and achievable building on prior learning, consolidating skills and allowing the children to master reading at each stage.
All the children being able to have the same book to take home allows the teaching to build over the course of the week and clear strategies to be taught. This creates confident, enthusiastic children who are keen to share their learning at home and consolidate further with fluency practice at home.
Sophie Murray
Head of Early Years, Pyrford Primary School
Removed a lot of the stress
It was daunting to have to change the way we teach phonics, but FFT Success for All Phonics removed a lot of the stress and workload for our staff.
The guides are easy to use; training is accessible, plentiful and broken into small manageable chunks; the reading resources have provided challenge for our children and the Parent Portal has been well-accessed to support learning to read at home. For those learners that find it hard to keep up, the Lightning Squad intervention is fun, engaging and progressive.
Lisa Loxton
Deputy Head, The Rissington School - Upper Rissington Cheltenham
Our children have made real gains
After using Letters and Sounds for our phonics we have found the move to Success for All Phonics a smooth transition. We were able to access training prior to starting the scheme. The programme offers a clear planning and structure that teachers and assistants are able to follow.
The resources to support the programme (both hard copies and digital versions) offer good value for money and they are easily accessible for our learners. Our children have made real gains in their reading as a result of the daily reading planning that supports Phonics and having class sets of decodable picture books has been a real asset.
Beyond Key Stage 1 children are excited to use the Tutoring with the Lightning Squad platform, it has really captured the interest of children that would otherwise find reading a challenge.
Charlotte Latter
Phonics Lead, The Discovery School, Kent
Improved their reading skills
Isabel Stewart
Foundation Lead, St John the Evangelist CofE Infant and Nursery School
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£1150
for an annual online subscription (1 form entry)
£750
for a printed set of 68 decodable reading books (30 copies of each book)
How much does it cost?
A simple annual subscription provides schools with online access to all of the teacher resources, reading books, training and support for FFT Success for All Phonics, along with a core set of printed teacher resources.
Schools can purchase printed copies of the decodable reading books and pupil practice booklets from Success for All.
Annual school subscription
| Half form entry | £600 |
| 1 form entry | £1150 |
| 2 form entry | £1550 |
| 3 form entry | £1900 |
68 decodable reading books
| Online access: use at school and home (online or printed by school) | Included in the subscription |
| 15 printed copies of each book (1,020 books) | £400 |
| 30 printed copies of each book (2,040 books) | £750 |
All training and support is provided online through the subscription. Schools can purchase optional training if required.
Optional training
| Half day | Full day | |
| Online | £350 | £500 |
| Face to face | £600 | £800 |
Prices shown apply from September 2022
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FAQs
About the programme
FFT’s Success for All Phonics is a second generation phonics programme that draws upon academic research, best practice and school feedback gathered over the last 20 years.
Here’s some of our recent feedback and you can take a look at our case studies at fft.org.uk/phonics/phonics-case-studies/
“It was daunting to change the way we teach phonics, but FFT Success for All Phonics removed a lot of the stress and workload for our staff.
The guides are easy to use, the training is accessible, the reading resources have provided challenge for our children and the Parent Portal has been well accessed to support learning to read at home. For those learners that find it hard to keep up, The Tutoring with the Lightning Squad intervention is fun, engaging and progressive.”
— Lisa Loxton, Deputy Head: The Rissington School.
“We’ve been really impressed! The Shared Readers are a real success; the children are so eager to read them each week! The vocabulary has excited them and improved their reading skills.”
— Isabel Stewart, Foundation Lead: St John the Evangelist School.
Yes. As part of your subscription, you will receive access to 68 fully decodable books online, matched to the Letters and Sounds progression. You can also buy copies in print.
Our Shared Reading books have been especially written for the programme - you do not need to purchase any additional books from publishers to use Success for All Phonics. They include a wide range of genres, engaging characters and familiar contexts that children will be excited to read.
We also provide access to these via a ‘Parent Portal’ and much of this is free to view at parents.fft.org.uk. Subscribed schools also have access to a full digital library of our Shared Readers, along with read-aloud videos of each book to support home reading. To give you a flavour please find a free-to-view link of a Shared Reader being read out loud.
You can use the decodable readers as part of a daily reading lesson that is initially around 15 minutes long for Reception children and rises to 30 minutes when they are ready. Year 1 session are 30 minutes long. Daily lesson planning for these sessions is available to use for all of the 68 readers.
How many you need of the print books is up to you, as you have access to all of the materials as part of your subscription. You can also purchase 15 copies of each book (1,020 books) for £400 or 30 copies of each (2,040 books) for £750.
Yes, we do! To support children, we have a fun daily Alphabet Chant that includes dynamic actions. You can see it at The Alphabet Chant.
Each GPC we teach includes an engaging picture and a mnemonic phrase that help the children link the grapheme to the phoneme that is being presented. You can view these on our Parent Portal at vimeo.com/showcase/9340990.
We also include helpful phrases for teaching letter formation, which you can view at parents.fft.org.uk/phonic-and-writing-phrases/
Using in schools
If your school has a nursery or you have older children who need additional support, you may wish to use our First Steps to Phonics programme. This Letters & Sounds based programme is specifically designed for children who need to develop Phase 1 skills, and who need to secure initial grapheme-phoneme correspondence for Phase 2 and the early Phase 3 GPCs. Throughout the programme children are explicitly taught a range of progressive phonics skills such as blending, segmenting, letter recognition and formation through fun, engaging activities that use key resources both digitally and in print.
First Steps to Phonics will be available from September 2022 as a free add-on for existing or new Phonics subscriptions. Digital materials will be available to download from the Phonics Portal. Schools wishing to purchase additional printed materials will need pay in the region of £50-£100 for a core set of teaching materials. Training for this programme will be available as part of our existing suite of complimentary online sessions.
Year 2 is currently supported by our comprehensive Phonics programme that covers Phase 6 of Letters and Sounds. We also have a wide range of challenging Shared Readers that go beyond the requirements for the Year 1 Phonics Screening. Please see our FAQ on Phase 6 / Year 2 Word Recognition, website information on FFT’s Reading Assessment Programme and Tutoring with the Lightning Squad as they all support Y2 children.
To further support Year 2, we are developing a programme that will be designed for children who have successfully completed Phonics. This programme will include a further set of reading materials, lesson plans and supporting resources to teach children the necessary skills in reading comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, grammar and punctuation. The programme will be mapped to the Y2 curriculum requirements and will include fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
This will be launched in 2023 as a free add-on to existing Phonics subscribers. Training will be available as part of our existing suite of complimentary online sessions. Full details of the programme, along with costings for printed materials will be available in September 2022.
Your FFT Success for All Phonics subscription includes complimentary access to our comprehensive Reading Assessment Programme – an online platform that assesses children’s phonics skills, decoding, reading fluency and comprehension to ensure that children, teachers and school leaders know exactly which reading skills have been mastered at each stage.
Instantaneously, at the click of a button, schools can assess pupils and view online reports, making it easy to monitor and track children’s reading attainment so that teaching can be targeted to close any gaps. You can find details of this new innovative programme here: fft.org.uk/reading-assessment-programme/
As an evidence-based programme, Success for All Phonics includes all the best practice guidance as outlined in the new Reading Framework. Opportunities for spoken language, exposure to high quality vocabulary, strong routines and high expectations for pupil engagement and our Co-operative Learning approach ensures that children are fully engaged and interact for the whole lesson.
This pedagogy along with our high-quality training and materials and resources ensure children are listening and talking with a partner in every lesson.
Common Exception Words (CEWs) include GPCs that are an exception to what children have been taught. CEWs are introduced systematically in Phonics lessons (starting at Step 13) and in the Shared Readers (from Step 4).
The progression includes all of the usual CEWs from L&S 2007. Children are taught to decode the GPCs they have learnt and to recognise and remember the ‘tricky’ grapheme for reading and spelling. Shared Readers will only contain a small number of newly introduced CEWs directly linked to the Scope and Sequence (view sample).
FFT Success for All Phonics provides a comprehensive set of both formative and summative phonics assessment materials, to ensure that children, teachers and school leaders know exactly which phonics skills have been mastered at each stage.
All children are assessed regularly using the assessments provided with FFT Success for All Phonics so that teaching can be targeted to close any gaps in their phonic knowledge or skills. These assessments will be available as an online programme, to check children’s phonics skills, decoding, reading fluency and comprehension.
This new innovative programme, linked to the tutoring programme, will enable you to view online reports to monitor and track children’s reading attainment and reading skills.
Ensuring that the all children make progress and reach age-related expectations is fundamental to Success for All’s mission. For a range of reasons, some children require additional catch-up support and teaching. Included in the programme of support and training we will support you to provide appropriate interventions for your pupils.
Included in your subscription is access to our highly effective reading tutoring programme FFT Tutoring with the Lightning Squad along with training for staff to support you to use it. Please see details of this here: https://fft.org.uk/tutoring/
Phase 6 / Year 2 Word Recognition is supported by the final stages of the Success for All Phonics programme and its application to the reading of parallel decodable texts and real books. They will also be applying the principles of spelling to their own writing at this point.
In this phase, children will have already learned the most common GPCs and a substantial number of alternative spellings for the same sounds. As they near the end of the programme, children will have an opportunity to read a short text extract, identify/compare words containing a variety of the focus GPCs and compare and apply spellings through word games and other activities. Please see the sample materials for further information.
You will notice that our Scope and Sequence (view sample) includes content from the National Curriculum for word reading up to the end of KS1.
Support
As part of your subscription, we provide a structured online training programme for teachers, teaching assistants and school leaders that can be accessed both live and on-demand. These sessions will include a session for phonics/early reading leaders on how to set up the programme, organise training and answer other key questions to ensure you get off to the best start.
In addition to the training offer outlined in our marketing materials and on our website, we will also provide a full suite of on-demand training videos that include in-class footage showing the programme in action.
All the training and support provided to schools for Success for All Phonics can be accessed on-demand, online, or face to face (at an additional cost).
We provide a comprehensive menu of ongoing training and support detailed on our Phonics Portal along with regular events that are open to any schools: fft.org.uk/training-events/improve-literacy-teaching
All schools that subscribe to FFT Success for All Phonics have access to a growing range of materials to support phonics and reading at home via our online Parent Portal.
Much of this is free to view at parents.fft.org.uk but subscribed schools also have access to a full digital library of our Shared Readers, along with read-aloud videos of each book to support home reading.
In addition to the training offer outlined in our marketing materials and on our website, we will also provide a full suite of on-demand training videos that include in-class footage showing the programme in action.
As our Phonics subscription includes our tutoring programme, you can also access a full day’s training, free of charge, for any staff using the programme.
We also provide regular ongoing CPD for schools that are detailed on our Phonics Portal along with regular CPD events that are open to any school. You can find more details at fft.org.uk/training-events/improve-literacy-teaching
FFT’s Success for All Phonics is a second generation phonics programme that draws upon academic research, best practice and school feedback gathered over the last 20 years.
Here’s some of our recent feedback and you can take a look at our case studies at fft.org.uk/phonics/phonics-case-studies/
“It was daunting to change the way we teach phonics, but FFT Success for All Phonics removed a lot of the stress and workload for our staff.
The guides are easy to use, the training is accessible, the reading resources have provided challenge for our children and the Parent Portal has been well accessed to support learning to read at home. For those learners that find it hard to keep up, The Tutoring with the Lightning Squad intervention is fun, engaging and progressive.”
— Lisa Loxton, Deputy Head: The Rissington School.
“We’ve been really impressed! The Shared Readers are a real success; the children are so eager to read them each week! The vocabulary has excited them and improved their reading skills.”
— Isabel Stewart, Foundation Lead: St John the Evangelist School.
Yes. As part of your subscription, you will receive access to 68 fully decodable books online, matched to the Letters and Sounds progression. You can also buy copies in print.
Our Shared Reading books have been especially written for the programme - you do not need to purchase any additional books from publishers to use Success for All Phonics. They include a wide range of genres, engaging characters and familiar contexts that children will be excited to read.
We also provide access to these via a ‘Parent Portal’ and much of this is free to view at parents.fft.org.uk. Subscribed schools also have access to a full digital library of our Shared Readers, along with read-aloud videos of each book to support home reading. To give you a flavour please find a free-to-view link of a Shared Reader being read out loud.
You can use the decodable readers as part of a daily reading lesson that is initially around 15 minutes long for Reception children and rises to 30 minutes when they are ready. Year 1 session are 30 minutes long. Daily lesson planning for these sessions is available to use for all of the 68 readers.
How many you need of the print books is up to you, as you have access to all of the materials as part of your subscription. You can also purchase 15 copies of each book (1,020 books) for £400 or 30 copies of each (2,040 books) for £750.
Yes, we do! To support children, we have a fun daily Alphabet Chant that includes dynamic actions. You can see it at The Alphabet Chant.
Each GPC we teach includes an engaging picture and a mnemonic phrase that help the children link the grapheme to the phoneme that is being presented. You can view these on our Parent Portal at vimeo.com/showcase/9340990.
We also include helpful phrases for teaching letter formation, which you can view at parents.fft.org.uk/phonic-and-writing-phrases/
Your FFT Success for All Phonics subscription includes complimentary access to our comprehensive Reading Assessment Programme – an online platform that assesses children’s phonics skills, decoding, reading fluency and comprehension to ensure that children, teachers and school leaders know exactly which reading skills have been mastered at each stage.
Instantaneously, at the click of a button, schools can assess pupils and view online reports, making it easy to monitor and track children’s reading attainment so that teaching can be targeted to close any gaps. You can find details of this new innovative programme here: fft.org.uk/reading-assessment-programme/
As an evidence-based programme, Success for All Phonics includes all the best practice guidance as outlined in the new Reading Framework. Opportunities for spoken language, exposure to high quality vocabulary, strong routines and high expectations for pupil engagement and our Co-operative Learning approach ensures that children are fully engaged and interact for the whole lesson.
This pedagogy along with our high-quality training and materials and resources ensure children are listening and talking with a partner in every lesson.
If your school has a nursery or you have older children who need additional support, you may wish to use our First Steps to Phonics programme. This Letters & Sounds based programme is specifically designed for children who need to develop Phase 1 skills, and who need to secure initial grapheme-phoneme correspondence for Phase 2 and the early Phase 3 GPCs. Throughout the programme children are explicitly taught a range of progressive phonics skills such as blending, segmenting, letter recognition and formation through fun, engaging activities that use key resources both digitally and in print.
First Steps to Phonics will be available from September 2022 as a free add-on for existing or new Phonics subscriptions. Digital materials will be available to download from the Phonics Portal. Schools wishing to purchase additional printed materials will need pay in the region of £50-£100 for a core set of teaching materials. Training for this programme will be available as part of our existing suite of complimentary online sessions.
Year 2 is currently supported by our comprehensive Phonics programme that covers Phase 6 of Letters and Sounds. We also have a wide range of challenging Shared Readers that go beyond the requirements for the Year 1 Phonics Screening. Please see our FAQ on Phase 6 / Year 2 Word Recognition, website information on FFT’s Reading Assessment Programme and Tutoring with the Lightning Squad as they all support Y2 children.
To further support Year 2, we are developing a programme that will be designed for children who have successfully completed Phonics. This programme will include a further set of reading materials, lesson plans and supporting resources to teach children the necessary skills in reading comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, grammar and punctuation. The programme will be mapped to the Y2 curriculum requirements and will include fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
This will be launched in 2023 as a free add-on to existing Phonics subscribers. Training will be available as part of our existing suite of complimentary online sessions. Full details of the programme, along with costings for printed materials will be available in September 2022.
Common Exception Words (CEWs) include GPCs that are an exception to what children have been taught. CEWs are introduced systematically in Phonics lessons (starting at Step 13) and in the Shared Readers (from Step 4).
The progression includes all of the usual CEWs from L&S 2007. Children are taught to decode the GPCs they have learnt and to recognise and remember the ‘tricky’ grapheme for reading and spelling. Shared Readers will only contain a small number of newly introduced CEWs directly linked to the Scope and Sequence (view sample).
Phase 6 / Year 2 Word Recognition is supported by the final stages of the Success for All Phonics programme and its application to the reading of parallel decodable texts and real books. They will also be applying the principles of spelling to their own writing at this point.
In this phase, children will have already learned the most common GPCs and a substantial number of alternative spellings for the same sounds. As they near the end of the programme, children will have an opportunity to read a short text extract, identify/compare words containing a variety of the focus GPCs and compare and apply spellings through word games and other activities. Please see the sample materials for further information.
You will notice that our Scope and Sequence (view sample) includes content from the National Curriculum for word reading up to the end of KS1.
As part of your subscription, we provide a structured online training programme for teachers, teaching assistants and school leaders that can be accessed both live and on-demand. These sessions will include a session for phonics/early reading leaders on how to set up the programme, organise training and answer other key questions to ensure you get off to the best start.
In addition to the training offer outlined in our marketing materials and on our website, we will also provide a full suite of on-demand training videos that include in-class footage showing the programme in action.
All the training and support provided to schools for Success for All Phonics can be accessed on-demand, online, or face to face (at an additional cost).
We provide a comprehensive menu of ongoing training and support detailed on our Phonics Portal along with regular events that are open to any schools: fft.org.uk/training-events/improve-literacy-teaching
Ensuring that the all children make progress and reach age-related expectations is fundamental to Success for All’s mission. For a range of reasons, some children require additional catch-up support and teaching. Included in the programme of support and training we will support you to provide appropriate interventions for your pupils.
Included in your subscription is access to our highly effective reading tutoring programme FFT Tutoring with the Lightning Squad along with training for staff to support you to use it. Please see details of this here: https://fft.org.uk/tutoring/
FFT Success for All Phonics provides a comprehensive set of both formative and summative phonics assessment materials, to ensure that children, teachers and school leaders know exactly which phonics skills have been mastered at each stage.
All children are assessed regularly using the assessments provided with FFT Success for All Phonics so that teaching can be targeted to close any gaps in their phonic knowledge or skills. These assessments will be available as an online programme, to check children’s phonics skills, decoding, reading fluency and comprehension.
This new innovative programme, linked to the tutoring programme, will enable you to view online reports to monitor and track children’s reading attainment and reading skills.
All schools that subscribe to FFT Success for All Phonics have access to a growing range of materials to support phonics and reading at home via our online Parent Portal.
Much of this is free to view at parents.fft.org.uk but subscribed schools also have access to a full digital library of our Shared Readers, along with read-aloud videos of each book to support home reading.
In addition to the training offer outlined in our marketing materials and on our website, we will also provide a full suite of on-demand training videos that include in-class footage showing the programme in action.
As our Phonics subscription includes our tutoring programme, you can also access a full day’s training, free of charge, for any staff using the programme.
We also provide regular ongoing CPD for schools that are detailed on our Phonics Portal along with regular CPD events that are open to any school. You can find more details at fft.org.uk/training-events/improve-literacy-teaching