Reading and Phonics

Intent

To provide an English curriculum that will teach children to speak, read and write fluently so they can communicate their ideas effectively to others.

• To develop children into efficient, effective, thoughtful and strategic readers who can learn about life, discover information and deepen their thinking through considering other people’s views and experiences with a critical mind
• Establish a consistent and coherent pedagogical pathway to the teaching of phonics from Early Years and beyond.
• Understand and apply their knowledge of phonics in reading.
• To teach children aural discrimination, phonemic awareness and rhyme to aid reading, writing and spelling development.
• To encourage the use of segmenting and blending so that decoding skills provide a sound foundation for reading, writing and spelling.
• To ensure the teaching of phonics is lively, interactive and investigative.
• To enable children to use phonic awareness across the curriculum.
• To ensure that children know the 44 phonemes within the English language.
• To teach children to recognise the graphemes within words and associate them with the appropriate phoneme when reading.
• To provide children with strategies to identify and decode ‘tricky words’.
• To develop retrieval skills through a range of information texts, including those related to the class’ topic.
• To consolidate literacy skills, build vocabulary and develop fluency and confidence as speakers, writers and readers of language.
• To develop inference skills through a range of texts, including poetry.
• To help children become avid readers, giving them greater understanding of the wider world.
• To create a reading culture that celebrates a love and enjoyment of books, motivating reluctant readers.
• To be able to read a range of materials fluently, critically and with understanding for enjoyment and for information
• To provide opportunities to apply reading across the wider curriculum.
• For children to develop a wide knowledge of vocabulary and understanding of words in context.

Find out more about our phonics here:

Meadowside Primary School: Phonics

Find out more about how we teach reading here:

Meadowside Primary School: Reading