Teaching of Reading

What is Read Write Inc?

Read Write Inc is a consistent, rigorous and dynamic literacy programme to teach EVERY child to read by the age of six. Using synthetic phonics, children quickly learn to blend letter sounds together following a fun and effective programme.

Why use RWI?

The RWI programme has been proven to be a very successful method of teaching every child to read using phonics. Evidence of this can be found in the Ofsted Report, Reading by six; how the best schools do it.

 

Download RWI Guide for Parents

RWI-Information-Booklet-for-Parents

Who will be following the programme?

All children in Early Years and Key Stage 1 will be following the programme. They will be assessed and put into groups specific to their reading level. Children will be taught phonics daily using specific RWI phonics books that stay in school. You child will bring a specific reading book home with them and it is important that you listen to your child read regularly.

What to read at home

Sometimes your child might bring home a picture book that they know well. Please don’t say, ‘This is too easy.’ Instead, encourage your child to tell you the story out loud; ask them questions about things that happen or what they think about some of the characters in the story.

Please read to your child as much as possible; it will help your child to learn vocabulary and stories. You can find out about good books to read to your child here: https://www.booksfortopics.com/

 

 

 

 

Children in Year 1 throughout the country take part in a phonics screening check in June. Children in Year 2 will also take the
check if they did not achieve the required result when in Year 1, or they have not taken the test before.

The phonics screening check is designed to confirm whether individual children have learnt sufficient phonic decoding and blending skills to an appropriate standard.

What happens during the test?

The test contains 40 words. The list of words the children read is a combination of 20 real words and 20 Alien words (nonsense words). Each child will sit one to one with a teacher and read each word aloud. The test will take approximately 10 minutes, although
children are all different and will complete the check at their own pace.

For more information: https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/at-school/primary-school-assessment-tests/year-1-phonics-screening-check/

Reading Expectations

By the end of Year 2, your child should be able to read aloud books with increased fluency. In Key Stage 2, we focus on deepening our understanding of plots points, character motivations and developing reading comprehension.

Reading-Expectations-Breakdown.docx

Book Talk by Jane Considine

As a school we have adopted ‘Book Talk’ by Jane Considine. It is a systematic way to teach reading comprehension from Year 2 upwards.

• Each Book Talk session is layered with open-ended whole class questions to tackle the three layers of the reading rainbow.
• This approach to teaching comprehension provides consistency across our school for the children as well as enabling deeper reading questions to be discussed and modelled.
• The key element of this approach is to develop children’s vocabulary when talking about texts.

Lexia

As extra reading support, from Year 1 to Year 6,  we use Lexia.  Lexia is a computer-based reading programme providing a personalised set of online activities which are completed daily. It is reviewed regularly to track and support children who may be struggling with their reading.