Literacy
At Leamington
we follow the New Literacy Framework and other
guidance to enable quality teaching and learning
to take place. We believe that language and literacy
is fundamental to the overall development of the
child and their access to the curriculum in all
its aspects. We aim to deliver quality teaching
of basic and higher order reading, writing and
listening skills to enable children to become
confident and successful in their literacy. We
want all our pupils by the end of Year Six to
be able to:
- read and
write with confidence, fluency and understanding;
- be aware
of and use a full range of reading cues (phonic,
graphic, syntactic, contextual) to monitor their
reading and correct their mistakes;
- understand
the sound and spelling system and use this to
read and spell accurately;
- have fluent
and legible handwriting;
- have an
interest in words and their meaning and a growing
vocabulary;
- know,
understand and be able to write in a range of
genres in fiction and poetry, and understand
and be familiar with some of the ways in which
narratives are structures through basic literary
ideas of setting, character and plot;
- understand,
use and be able to write a range of non-fiction
texts;
- plan,
draft, revise and edit their own writing;
- have a
suitable technical vocabulary through which
to understand and discuss their reading and
writing;
- be interested
in books, read with enjoyment and evaluate and
justify their preferences;
- learn
by making mistakes;
- take part
in mind friendly activities and have fun.
Reading
with your child
We have put
our reading scheme progression for home readers
here so that you can check to make sure that your
child is bringing home the correct book. Our books
are all banded according to ability and progress
from Pink Level to White. If your child completes
all bands they are then encouraged to use black
band which caters more for older readers and has
a huge selection of fiction and non fiction.
If you have
any questions about our reading scheme please
do not hesitate to contact your child's teacher.
Phonics
At Leamington,
to help us with our phonics we use Letters and
Sounds. The children begin with Phase 1 which
begins with sounds in the environment. This work
begins as early as Nursery. We move through the
phases as the children progress.
Phonics lessons are regular and take place 3 to
4 times a week in KS 1 and early KS 2. Some children
in upper KS 2 may need to work in groups to reinforce
this work.
The children are assessed termly so that they
are correctly placed in their letters and sounds
group.
The lessons are very fast pace and include fun
games. We use lots of interactive resources including
phonicsplay.com and letters-and-sounds.com. You
can try these at home with your child.
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