Reading at Moss Hey Primary

Teaching Reading:

KS1

• Whole class activities – using the interactive screen
• Planned activities including skills (phonics)
• Children receive one focus group session each week
• Daily reading 1:1

KS2

Following Leicester Inference

• Monday – whole class reading: teacher modelling
• Planning - timetable of activities/tasks covering the reading domains
• Each group to have one focus teaching session a week

KS1 intervention: 1:1 reading sessions, phonics interventions,

KS2 intervention: Targeted children to do the Leicester Inference

Reading is a focus within our writing journey: reading as a writer and then writing as a reader.

Key Stage 1 reading scheme

Oxford Reading Tree: Floppy Phonics, Project X, Alien Adventures, All stars, Trackers, Leapfrog, Treetops, Snapdragons, Infacts, Rigby Stars, Story Sparks, Time Chronicles, Songbirds, Fireflies and Usborne.

Phonics

• Daily phonics – 20 minute sessions (KS1)
• Extra intervention sessions for targeted children
• KS2 – phonics intervention group
• Consistent approaches – taught and assessed using Letters & Sounds and phonics tracker
• Phonics reading scheme: Rising Stars; reading planet scheme.  Books used for homework linked with a game

Class book:

• Timetabled – at least10 minutes a day
• Sometimes the class teacher will use an extract from the book as the guided reading focus

Directed Reading

• Children to stay on the reading scheme until the Navy band
• Children then move onto ‘directed read’ books
• Teachers to track on the book band trackers
• Parents / pupils to use reading homework diaries – KS1 add comment for guided reading sessions
• Rooted reading passports for Year 2 to Year 6

Reading for Enjoyment

• Reception class have a mystery reader
• Library – each class has a timetabled slot – children regularly change their books
• Reading club
• Y6 reading buddies
• Celebrating World Book Day
• National Poetry Week
• Visits to Bramhall library
• Work with the local bookshop (Simply Books)
• Recommended reads

Classroom Environment

• A reading area
• Reading strategies displayed
• Rooted in reading display
• Display class read
• Access to quality books

Tracking progress

• Termly assessments: NTS reading assessments from Year 2 to 6
• Daily reading records (home/school)
• Guided reading sessions
• Book band tracking sheet
• Reading passports
• Interventions tracking and assessing