At East Morton CE Primary School, we are committed to ensuring that our learners become skilled and confident readers who know and use a range of effective reading skills, which allow them to tackle challenging texts whilst ensuring that they gain a good understanding of what has been read.
Reading Skills
We follow the ‘Reciprocal Reading’ strategy to whole class reading. We use four reading skills, these are:
Phonics at East Morton Primary School
Systematic synthetic phonics is taught using the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised programme throughout Reception and Year 1. The teaching of this programme starts in Reception and follows 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.
For further information, please see our Reading Policy on the Policies page and also the Little Wandle Support for Parents page.
Reading at home support
The following document, by the Education Endowment Foundation, contains some useful tips for supporting your child with reading at home.
Book Recommendations
‘The School Reading List‘ provide a list of recommended books for each year group. Please follow the links below for age-appropriate suggestions for your child:
Useful websites to support reading:
Book Trust: https://www.booktrust.org.uk/how-we-help/parents-families/
Suggested books for children, advice on how to read with your child, book lists, fun games, competitions to win free books, Children’s Book Club etc.
Oxford Owl: https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/
Phonics advice and access to free E-Books. Free to register.
Pearson: https://www.pearson.com/uk/learners/primary-parents/learn-at-home/help-your-child-to-enjoy-reading.html
Publisher’s website designed to give parents help and advice for reading with children.
Phonics Play: https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
A useful website featuring free resources for KS1.
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