Reading
At Stockton Wood, we aim to have all children reading widely, fluently and confidently.
It is our aim to encourage children to learn to love reading and to read regularly outside of school.
We have recently opened our own library for pupils to enjoy.
Children will be taught two key reading skills:
Word reading – the ability to decode words- will be taught through the use of the Synthetic Phonics Programme ‘Read Write Inc.’ Children will be bench marked to assess which level of books they should be reading and to ensure that they progress appropriately. These assessments take place half termly.
Comprehension – Children’s comprehension skills will be taught through high quality discussions with teachers and teaching assistants, individual and group reading times and whole class reading activities. We have moved towards a whole class reading approach when children have completed the RWI programme. They then use the Literacy Counts Ready Steady Comprehension scheme and we have found that children have become motivated to read and discuss more challenging texts.
Celebrations such as World Book Day are used to invite authors into school and promote the pleasure and knowledge that can be gained from books.
The documents below give you more information about the texts and genres that your child will be covering. Please note that this document should be read in conjunction with our curriculum overviews and Reading Spine. In addition to this, we are looking forward to adding to our Ready Steady Comprehension Units.
Primary National Curriculum for English
Support your child with reading
Phonics
What is Read Write Inc?
Read Write Inc (RWI) is a phonics complete literacy programme which helps all children learn to read fluently and at speed so they can focus on developing their skills in comprehension, vocabulary and spelling. The programme is designed for children aged 4-7. However, at Stockton Wood we begin the programme in Nursery and will continue teaching RWI to children beyond the age of 7 if they still need support in their reading.
RWI was developed by Ruth Miskin and more information on this can be found at https://ruthmiskin.com/en/find-out-more/parents/.
How will RWI be taught?
All children are assessed every 6-8 weeks and placed in groups to target their phonic at the appropriate level. This allows complete participation in lessons.
To help at home:
Your child will start to bring books home when they are confident readers. Please help them to read and give lots of praise!
If you have any other questions about RWI, please see your class teacher.
Phonics Screening Check Year One
What is the Year 1 phonics screening check?
The Year 1 phonics screening check is a short, light-touch assessment to confirm whether individual pupils have learnt phonic decoding to an appropriate standard.
It will identify the children who need extra help so they are given support by their school to improve their reading skills. They will then be able to retake the check so that schools can track pupils until they are able to decode.
Useful websites for Parents
Your child will have brought home QR codes for RWI and an Oxford Owl log in for RWI reading at home if they are in Rec – Y2.
Please find a list of websites that you may find useful in helping you and your child learn about phonics. Games and fun activity websites are also included.
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ – many games to play
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/phonics/play/ – fun games for the children to play
http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html – fun games for the children to play
http://www.kenttrustweb.org.uk/kentict/kentict_home.cfm – fun games for the children to play and information for parents
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/ – fun games for the children to play
http://www.starfall.com/ – fun games for the children to play
http://www.firstschoolyears.com/ – fun games for the children to play
BBC Bitesize – many games to play covering all areas of the curriculum
Please click on this link for the Ruth Miskin website where you can find more information regarding Read Write Inc phonics and Literacy & Language including useful videos and guides for parents.
Reading statement of intent implementation and impact
Reading whole school progression document
Reading-Spine-Y2-UPDATED-Autumn-2025
Reading-Spine-Y3-UPDATED-Autumn-2025
Reading-Spine-Y4-UPDATED-Autumn-2025
English – Reading Chatter
Parents Stay and Learn
Thank you to all of the parents for coming to our stay and learn, we enjoyed doing lots of activities to show our love of reading.
Year 6 Stay and Learn
Year 6’s families joined us this morning to celebrate all of the work we’ve done this half-term on our story, Rose Blanche.
Year 6- Stay and Learn
6B had a fantastic Stay and Learn this morning, where parents and guardians joined us in playing reading games based on our class text- Rose Blanche.
Stay and Learn – Reading
Thank you to all our wonderful families for coming to our Stay and Learn session yesterday! We are so grateful to you all for coming and playing our fab reading game with us. Some families even wanted to take one home to play again!
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Stay and Learn – Reading
A huge thank you to all the parents who joined us for this morning’s Stay and Learn session! We explored how we use Ready Steady Read Together in school and shared helpful tips and strategies to support reading at home.
Children, let’s keep the story going!
Please remember to bring your reading book to school every day!
Stay and Learn 📚
This week, we had lots of fun during our Stay and Learn session, where families joined us in school to take part in our learning. This term, our focus was reading, so we enjoyed lots of exciting activities based on the wonderful books by Julia Donaldson. A big thank you to all the families who came along and supported our first Stay and Learn session of the year. We look forward to welcoming you all back for our next session!
Library
We finished our busy (but exciting) week with a relaxing visit to our beautiful library 🥰
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6 stars on our bookmarks! 🌟
Each week, when we bring our book bag back to school, Mrs Ritchie checks our diary to see if we have read with a grown up. If we have, we get a star on our special bookmark. When we get to 6, we get to visit Mrs Clovis and we receive our special badge! Mrs Clovis was incredibly proud of all of us. We can’t wait to get the next few stars, and get our second prize!
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Year 4 Big Friday Quiz
Year 4’s Big Friday Quiz is a hit!
We love earning dojos when we successfully retrieve and recall our previous learning.
Year 4 Reading for Pleasure
We love to drop everything and read (DEAR) in year 4!
How often do you find time and a cosy space to settle down to some quiet reading for plaeasure?
Y4 – Immerse
Great sharing of ideas for persuasive writing using extracts from the vehicle and example texts.
National Poetry Day 2026
Today we are celebrating National Poetry Day! We read some funny poems about smelly feet! We loved finding the rhyming words.
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5D – English 📚
During English, 5D have been practising their dictionary skills. We have been finding key vocabulary from our text and writing the definitions in our books to help us with our next piece of writing.
Phonics 🔴
We have been doing an amazing job learning all of our new sounds! We have had lots of fun practising our sounds and developing our matching skills. It has been wonderful to see how confidently we are beginning to recognise and match our sounds as we continue to build our phonics knowledge.
Our Library Visit 📚
This week in SCARF, we have been talking about our special things. We drew pictures of something that is special to us and added them to our class Special Tree. We were able to talk about our pictures and share with everyone why our special thing is important to us. It was lovely to hear everyone’s ideas and learn more about what makes each of us special.
Year 6- Library
Last week, Year 6 spent time enjoying a range of texts in the school library.
