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Our Phonic & Reading Schemes
In Early Years and Year One, reading is taught using the phonics scheme, Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised. Children take part in short, focused phonics and spelling sessions within their classes and small groups, working at an aspirational pace to move each child on to meet their potential. The progression of phonics has been devised so that children are taught a cumulative progression of grapheme-phoneme correspondences (GPCs) that they immediately practise through oral blending, reading and spelling words and sentences, and, later on, reading fully decodable books.
In Year Two, children consolidate their segmenting and blending skills to become fluent readers. Reading fluency increases and children read familiar words automatically without the need to sound out and blend. Books are selected from the Collins Big Cat Reading Scheme to support their learning. These books are colour coded to ensure progression and challenge.
In Year Three and Four, reading skills are taught explicitly to ensure the entirety of the National Curriculum is covered. During lessons, pupils are exposed to different texts and genres. Pupils learn a range of techniques which enable them to comprehend the meaning of what they read. Books are selected from the Collins Big Cat Reading Scheme as highlighted above. Competent and fluent readers may become free readers and choose their own reading material from the library.
Pupils learn how to:
- Explain the meaning of words in context
- Retrieve and record information from fiction and non-fiction texts
- Summarise the main ideas from more than one paragraph
- Make inferences from the text, explaining and justifying using evidence from the text
- Make comparisons within the texts