Therefore, we ensure that reading is a daily activity for children, whether it be independent reading, listening to adults read or peer reading. We want to instil a love of reading into all our children; the more children enjoy reading, the more likely they are going to want to read.
We believe that children should hear a range of quality stories and poems regularly so that they hear and internalise new vocabulary and its meaning. Therefore, we read to children daily. This will also allow for children to learn how to use expression and change their tone while reading, to make reading more engaging for the listener.
This supports the children through the different phases, so that the children are exposed to the different phonetical sounds, which becomes more complex until they are able to read phonetical words. All children will have a book that is linked to their phonic ability. Here are all the sounds the children will have learnt by the end of the phonics programme:
Our phonics programme is Read, Write, Inc. Click here to find out about how we teach phonics at Sycamore –
To read with fluency we focus on these key areas.
While children are building their confidence with fluency, we also teach children comprehension skills. We use the reading domains to ensure that children can understand a text in a range of ways.
Meet the KS1 ‘Pawsome Gang’
Meet the KS2 ‘Pawsome Gang’
Accelerated Reader
Once children have successfully completed the Read, Write, Inc phonics programme and have acquired enough reading skills to independently access texts we then use the
The aim of our school is for all of our pupils to be on the Accelerated Reader Programme by the end of Year 2.
For more information regarding reading across the school please click here – Reading at Sycamore