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 intervention sessions for targeted children
Assessments every 5 weeks

Accessing phonics BEYOND Year 1:

Our Reading Scheme

For our reading scheme we use Reading Recovery up Sapphire RR30.

Children in Reception and Year 1 take a reading recovery book home as a ‘share at home book’.
From Year 2 children take a book home to develop their reading skills.
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

Teaching Reading:

Year 2 to Year 6

We follow the Leicester Inference strategies for the teaching of reading and this is introduced from Year 2. Reading is taught daily.

Monday – whole class reading: introduction of extract/text - teacher modelling
Tuesday to Friday –further exploration of the text through independent tasks and focus group teaching
Reading strategies are also explicitly taught during the first stage of our writing journey

Interventions:

Tracking progress:

Class book:

Reception have at least 2 whole class stories a day
Each year group has a class book – the staff member in the class reads at least 10 minutes a day.
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
Class read from Year 2
Book corners in all classrooms
High quality books chosenfor writing journey- each class has an overview linked to books
Mystery readers
Class reading scrapbook
Reading parent workshops
Recommending good reads - class reading lists- based on pie Corbett reading spines, reading spine, books for topics
Reading buddies
Celebrate poetry week world book day
Readathons- Sponsored read
Whole school book projects
Links with Simply books(local book shop)
Visits to Bramhall library

Classroom Environment

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