English

Writing

Writing:

In writing, we follow an oracy first approach, where the children are exposed to some great authors and a variety of texts; the children then use the texts to create their own writing.

Spelling:

We use the No Nonsense spelling scheme to teach spelling. The scheme will cover all spelling rules and statutory spellings prescribed by the National Curriculum.  Children are given spellings to learn and to practise at home through the Spelling Shed website.

Handwriting:

As required by the National Curriculum, all children will be expected to use a joined, cursive style when they write.  The school uses the Letter Join accredited scheme to inform how and when to join letters and progress in an adaptive yet coherent way.

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Reading

The children will access a range of fiction and non-fiction texts throughout the course of their reading sessions.  The children will be taught how to approach reading text questions using the following question types: Copycat (retrieval questions); Text Detective (inference questions) and Judge & Jury (evaluative questions).  In addition, over the course of the year, children will be read to from a reading canon for their year group in order to expand their vocabulary and foster a love of reading. Where identified through assessment, Early Reading is developed through the use of the accredited scheme of Little Wandle and delivered in small, attainment groups to ensure precision teaching.

Reading Curriculum

Phonics and Early Reading 

At Stourfield Infant and Junior School, we use Little Wandle Letters and Sounds and Rapid Catch-up programmes to teach early reading. We start teaching phonics in Reception and follow the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised progression, which ensures children build on their growing knowledge of the alphabetic code, mastering phonics to read and spell as they move through school.

Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised is a systematic and synthetic phonics programme. The Little Wandle Rapid Catch-Up is an accelerated catch-up programme for children in Year 2 and above who are not reading at the expected level for their age. It mirrors the main Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised programme, but has been created to help children catch up quickly.

The link below will direct you to four videos on the Little Wandle website. These videos show you to pronounce the sounds to support reading at home.

Little Wandle - Letters and Sounds