Phonics & Reading at Key Stage 1 & 2

Reading

Reading fluency is a priority. Children in their early years develop a strong foundation in phonics through rigorous teaching of our chosen systematic synthetic phonics programme: Little Wandle Phonics.  We aim for all children to achieve high levels of automaticity. Assessment is key, gaps are quickly identified and interventions put in place to ensure children ‘keep up’ with the pace of learning.  All staff have a sound knowledge in the teaching of phonics and incorporate this when teaching in later years to ensure children can draw on their previous knowledge of phonemes and graphemes to decode unfamiliar words, when encouraged to use adventurous word choices and exploring new spelling. 

Phonics at Pimperne Primary

At Pimperne Primary, we believe all our children can become fluent readers and writers. This is why, in EYFS and Key Stage 1, we teach reading through Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised, a systematic and synthetic phonics programme.  We start teaching phonics in Reception and follow the Little Wandle progression, which ensures children build on their growing knowledge of the alphabetic code, mastering phonics to read and spell as they move through school. 

See Phonics & Reading Comprehension Progression Maps below.

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Reading in Key Stage 2

To teach reading in line with the Reading Framework, reading lessons from Year 2 (Summer term) to Year 6 will be taught as a whole class sessions studying an age-appropriate text.  

  • Sessions will be structured in line with our learning pathway.
  • Each session should be 20-30 minutes in Year 2 and 30-40 minutes in KS2

Across the week, all children will have opportunity to:

  • Hear their teacher read a text aloud daily - (Teacher reading)
  • Echo or choral read a text – (whole class reading together)
  • Listen to a peer read a text aloud - (Paired reading)
  • Read aloud a text to a peer/teacher - (Paired reading)
  • Discuss, question and visualise the text they are reading - (Discussion)
  • See high quality modelling and explanations of reading from their teachers - (Teacher reading/discussions/I do)
  • Complete independent tasks linked to the text they are reading - (Independent task - you do)
This follows our school's 'learning pathway', which is shared in the documents on this page.
 
Please look at the document below about Reading in Key Stage 2 and the development of skills.
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Support for Parents who want to help their child to read:

Have a look at the Little Wandle website for parents. There is a wide variety of support and help for the pronounciation of the phonemes.

Little Wandle for Parents

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We endeavour to foster a love of reading through teacher modelling, daily ‘Everyone Reading In Class’ time, quality class reads and story time, along with many other additional opportunities such as: regular use of the school library, reading club, visiting authors and sponsored events. 

Reading Tips

Oxford Owl is an excellent website full of tips for parents to encourage and help their children with reading.  See the website links below: