In Year 1 and the Autumn Term of Year 2, we use Read Write Inc. Talk Through Stories to systematically develop children’s vocabulary, comprehension and love of reading.

Through carefully selected, high-quality stories, children explore characters, events and ideas while being explicitly taught new and ambitious vocabulary. Stories and vocabulary are revisited regularly, enabling children to deepen their understanding and confidently apply new language.

Talk Through Stories develops children’s speaking, listening and comprehension skills, providing strong foundations for reading and writing and supporting children to access the wider curriculum with confidence.

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In Years 3–6 we use the Christopher Such Model of Guided Reading.

The children participate in a daily Guided Reading lesson which may be a Fluency, Extended of Close Read.  The timetable below shows which types of reading are focussed on in each lesson.

 

Fluency Practice: Paired reading of a short extract before whole class discussion and answering questions about the text.

Extended Reading: All children are invited to read a short extract from the text as modelled by the teacher. The teacher pauses as intervals throughout an extended read to discuss ideas from the text. The children answer questions about the part of the text that they have read and discussed.

Close Reading: The teacher models the close analysis of a short section of the text. The children are encouraged to annotate the extract for themselves and use their annotations to answer questions in full sentences.

The texts that will be read by each year group are detailed below. We ask that all families who are able, purchase a copy of their child’s core text each term.

THINGS THAT PARENTS CAN DO TO SUPPORT THEIR CHILD’S READING AT HOME:

• Sit with your child every night and engage with them in their reading. Please look at the teacher’s comments and make your own comments in the Homework Book.
• Encourage your child to ‘sound-out’ unfamiliar words and blend the sounds together from left to right.
• Discuss with your child what they have read in the book.
• Ask them to retell the story.
• Talk about any interesting words and their meanings, or any interesting phrases which your child may ‘borrow’ (magpie) and use in their own writing.
• Visit the local library with your child.
• Read to your child often.
• Play the phonic games sent home from school.
• Play word games like ‘I Spy.’