How you can support your child with reading at home
General guidance when reading with your child:
Vocabulary |
Retrieving |
Inferring |
Predicting |
Help your child pay attention to how authors have chosen to use certain words by asking the following questions:
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Help your child to go into a story and retrieve the facts by asking the following questions:
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Help your child hunt for clues in the story about how someone might be feeling or why something has happened by asking the following questions:
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Help your child predict use the clues in the story to predict what might happen next by asking the following questions:
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How we teach English at All Saints’
Reading
Every morning, children participate in a whole class guided reading session.
In Key Stage One, children are supported through deploying as many adults as possible into Year 1 and 2. Here children participate in guided reading groups lead by their assigned adult.
Phonics is taught systematically at All Saints’ from Nursery class to Year 2 using the progression as described in the ‘Letters and Sounds’ program.
In Key Stage Two, children follow a structured reading program called ‘Destination Reader’. Through the use of a designated book they are taught a range of strategies to aid comprehension; they are taught to read with meaning; and are supported to read with pleasure.
Please see below a recommended reading list for your child’s year group.
Writing
Our Literacy lessons are based around a book. Over a three to four week period, children follow a structured approach to writing inspired by ‘Talking For Writing’ and ‘The Power Of Reading’. The children participate in the following writing process:
Spelling is taught separately in discrete lessons. The ‘No Nonsense Spelling’ scheme is used to teach key spelling patterns to the children.
Handwriting is also taught separately in discrete lessons where the children learn to use the ‘Nelson Handwriting’ style.