Moss Hey Primary School
Reading at Moss Hey Primary
Phonics:
Reception and Year 1
- Daily phonics teaching following Essential Letters and Sounds
- Children are introduced to a decodable book each Friday in the review lesson and this is taken home to focus on their new learning and to increase confidence and fluency
- Extra daily intervention sessions for targeted children
- Assessments every 5 weeks
Accessing phonics BEYOND Year 1:
- Teachers to include phonics teaching where the need is identified
- Phonics is incorporated in our spelling teaching in Y2 and KS2
Our Reading Scheme
For our reading scheme we use Reading Recovery up Sapphire RR30.
- Children in Reception, Year 1 and 2 take home an RR book to share at home when they ready.
- Some children are benchmarked to ensure they are reading at the appropriate level
- Each child has a reading diary. This is a reading dialogue between home and school.
- Once children have finished the books with Sapphire RR30, they are able to choose reading books in their year group. These have all been lexiled to ensure that the reading age and content is appropriate and offers the correct level of challenge.
- 1:1 reading to support children not reading at age related expectations
Teaching Reading:
Year 2 to Year 6
Reading is taught daily through guided reading lessons.
Interventions:
- 1:1 reading
- Nessy
- Toe by Toe
Tracking progress:
- Termly assessments: Year 2 to Y6 use
- Daily reading records (home/school)
- Guided reading sessions
- Nessy tracking and assessing
Class stories:
- Reception share a whole class stories each day
- Children in Y1 - Y6 will be read a class story at least four times a week.
- Class books are chosen to expose children to a range of genres and authors. As well as reflecting experiences and perspectives that are similar and different from their own.
Reading for Enjoyment
Reading is a priority and forms part of our culture.
- Our library is at the heart of school - timetabled for all to use
- Teachers are reading experts and demonstrate a love of books
- Book corners in all classrooms
- High quality books chosen for writing journey
- 'Mystery readers' in Reception each week to read a story and share their favourite book
- Reading and or phonics parent workshops
- Book Club - protected time for teachers and peers to recommend good reads based on published reading spines
- Reading buddies
- Celebrating world book days
- Whole school learning based on a shared book
- Links with Simply books(local book shop)
- Visits to Bramhall library
- Author visits
Classroom Environment
- Each class has a reading area
- Access to quality books
- Reading strategies displayed
- Books linked to year group themes are displayed
- Book club recommending books to read for example reading scrap book