Reading at St Anne's

Reading schemes and phonics

Research has shown that children who have a love of books, see good reading role models at home and school, and practise reading on a regular basis, become good readers.  At St Anne’s we strive to ensure all children have access to good reading materials, are given lots of different opportunities to develop their reading skills and that parents are encouraged to support their children in a variety of ways.  The school curriculum places quality age appropriate reading books at the centre of each half-term's topic.  This is a strong signal of our intent.

Reading in Foundation Stage and Key Stage One

In class, children will be learning phonics, sight words and strategies to read unknown words. They will be part of a daily phonics group, which will develop their phonological knowledge and the skills of blending and segmenting. Within Reception, children will be learning to read on a 1 to 1 basis and within a weekly guided group towards the Summer Term.  Across KS1, some children will be learning to read on a 1 to 1 basis and all children within a weekly guided group.  Towards the end of KS1 the children will be learning to read guided groups and will complete small group comprehension to develop their deduction and inference skills. In school, we follow the 'Letters and Sounds' scheme to help children to develop their phonics skills.

We use a variety of reading schemes in school, including Oxford Reading Tree, Project X and Bug Club. We believe in having a variety of schemes as this helps children to apply their reading skills to differing reading styles.  Children take two banded books home per week.

Reading in Foundation Stage and Key Stage One is successful and gives our children a good foundation in reading.