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