English Phonics 

We aim to create a love for Reading, Writing and Spelling through the consistent approach of Phonics teaching. We want every child to leave our school fluent readers and writers. Therefore, we teach reading through Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised, which is a systematic and synthetic phonics programme.

We use phonics as the prime teaching and learning approach to early reading and writing skills in Early Years Foundation Stage and Key Stage One and where needed we continue the teaching of Phonics into Key Stage Two.

We start teaching phonics in Reception and follow the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised progression, which ensures children build on their growing knowledge of the alphabetic code, mastering phonics to read and spell as they move through school.

Our phonics teaching is supplemented by reading practice sessions from the Little Wandle scheme. This helps promote fluency and comprehension skills to coincide with their secure Phonics knowledge. This is followed by daily guided reading lessons in Year Two. Information about these lessons can be found in th reading section of this page. 

Children are given carefully chosen, fully decodable phonic appropriate books to allow them to apply their new phonological knowledge at home in their reading.
 

Our phonics intent statement, including the links to the Market Rasen Church School Vision, can be found here.

English Reading

We believe that one of our most important jobs in school is to ensure all children can read and develop a love of reading that will stay with them beyond their time at our school.

Our Reading intent statement, including the links to the Market Rasen Church School Vision, can be found here.

Children in Reception and Year One have a daily shared reading lesson. Shared reading is an interactive reading experience which occurs when a small group of children join in or share the reading of a suitably challenging book or other text whilst guided and supported by a teacher. The teacher explicitly models the skills of proficient reading including reading with fluency and expression. Shared reading will be linked to the phonics children are learning at that time.

Children in Years Two to Six have a daily guided reading lesson of at least 30 minutes based on the different skills needed to be a confident, fluent reader. We use a wide range of texts to engage, motivate and enthuse learners.

The different skills we teach include

• Retrieval of specific information
• Word knowledge and word choice
• Deductive reasoning and inference
• Answering questions using the answer, prove and explain strategy. (APE) 

We use a wide range of texts to engage, motivate and enthuse learners.

This is our weekly guided reading cycle.