Curriculum Intent Reading – St Anne’s C of E (A) Primary School
At St. Anne’s Church of England Primary school, we are determined that every child will learn to read and develop a lifelong love of books regardless of their background, needs or abilities.
High quality phonics teaching takes priority in FS2 and KS1 and is taught systematically every day following the guidance from the Letters and Sounds document. Phonics teaching is supplemented by alternative materials to ensure lessons are engaging, multisensory and enjoyable.
Teachers and practitioners have clear expectations of pupils’ phonics progress term by term. Pupils falling below this benchmark are identified early and interventions are put in place.
In FS2 and Key Stage 1, reading books are organised into book bands and children read books matched to their reading ability. Books are sub-divided into books that are mostly phonetically decodable and into genres ensuring children are applying their phonic knowledge and reading a breadth of books i.e. fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Teachers and practitioners have clear expectations of where pupils should be year by year and interventions are put in place to support pupils who are at risk of not meeting these benchmarks.
Automatic, fluent readers who have excellent comprehension and engagement is our ultimate goal by the end of KS1.