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
English – Reading Chatter
Ready Steady Write
Octopus Opening helps us to plan our writing. Using the planning circle we planned our very own opening to our story.
Pirate Week
This week Reception are exploring pirates. Across our classroom are lots of pirate 🏴☠️ activities for us to explore such as; pirate colour by numbers, pirate tuff tray, pirate map making and pirate stories!
National Literacy Event
Years 5 and 6 enjoyed a visit from a storyteller and poet. It was fantastic to see the children engaged for over an hour, listening to his wonderful tales.
Reading for pleasure
Every Thursday, we bring our book bags into school and choose a new book to share with our family ❤️
Meeting an author!
Some of us met the author Luke Temple and got our book signed.
We were also excited to find his stories in our library for us to choose for reading for pleasure.
The Storm Whale 🐋
Reception have been enjoying our English book The Storm Whale 🐋! We have been writing lots of sentences with the help of our story friends. Today Wise Owl helped us to use capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.
Author Visit
Such a lovely time today with our visiting Author Luke Temple. We listened carefully to different extracts from three of his books and asked a range of questions. Which book would you like to read in full?
KS2 Author visit – Luke Temple
Luke shared his fantastic adventure stories with us this morning. The main character is called Felix Dashwood and Luke helped us to bring the characters to life and explore the problems that they come across.
We had a chance to ask Luke some great questions and see how the illustrator brings his characters to life too!
Signed books about Felix’s adventures and the characters she meets on her way, will be on sale in school tomorrow!
Book Signing Y6
Luke Temple will be back in school tomorrow to sign a copy of his book if you wish to buy one!
Author visit
Year 4 had an amazing visit from the fabulous author Luke Temple. Autographed books will be available to buy from school tomorrow.
Author Visit
Y6 enjoyed finding out about Luke Temple’s books in our author visit today!
The Seaside
This week reception have been exploring the seaside and animals under the sea. Our new English text The Storm Whale has inspired us! Using pastels we coloured different animals that we find under the sea. We traced the patterns to help us improve our fine motor skills!
The Seashore
This week reception are exploring the sea and the seashore. We have explored different textures in our tuff tray. We used rice crispy for sand, jelly for the sea, rocks for rock pools and shells. Around our classroom there are lots of sea activities to explore!
Julia Donaldson
We have explored Julia Donaldson’s texts The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s child. We have created our own deep dark wood and made the characters!
Library time
We had a lovely relaxing time in the library sharing stories and reading with friends.
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Julia Donaldson
Reception have explored the text Superworm! We created our very own super worms using card and pens!
Julia Donaldson 📚
This week Reception are exploring the work of Julia Donaldson. The first book we read was Cave Baby. Using natural resources such as; twigs, leaves, flowers and grass, we made our very own cave paintings.
Year 5 star readers
We loved our recent National literacy book event and sadly forgot to post about it…
We also have some star readers of our own in 5M!
Well-being week
We are enjoying our well-being activities this week. Today, we sat in the cool shade to listen to our chosen story for the day. This was a wonderful idea from one of our children ❤️
Froggy Fever
Year 5 have been learning about life cycles of amphibians, insects and birds this afternoon. One of our pupils had a book all about frogs, from our reading cafe last term. We had time at the end of our day to find out some more interesting facts!
Y6 Reading Event
What a fabulous book event in the hall today! We had to guess the masked reader- so funny! And we all got a free book! Happy reading Y6!
5M Reading for pleasure
We took a little time this morning to refocus our minds with some quiet reading time in our fabulous school library.
Linking letters to sounds
We have been learning pictures sounds for a while, and now we are learning how to link those pictures to letters. The children were so excited when they realised that letter sounds are all around us! Some children found some sounds in our fine motor activity!
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Problem Penguin
We are a couple of weeks into our half term, and we have now sequenced our Problem Penguin! Only the Elephant Ending to go and then we will have yet another story under our belts 📕
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LFC Foundation Central Library Trip
Some of our Year 3 children enjoyed their trip to Central Library yesterday where they got a tour of the library and got read a story. We even programmed our own robot to tell our own made up stories!
Science Week, Day 3.
Today we have had lots of fun doing a science experiment about the weather. We have learnt about the rain and got to be scientists and experiment it all on our own.
Little Red
This week reception have continued to plan their own version of Little Red. Today build up bear helped us to plan the next section.📝
World Book Day 📚
We had lots of fun celebrating World Book Day📚 We did lots of fun activities, we read with our reading buddies and we even read a story in the den we built as a team.
We all made our book mark and read our favourite story the colour monster, as for World Book Day we focused on colours. We know now how to mix different colours to make new colours!
World Book Day Y2
We loved sharing stories with our reading buddies during World Book Day!
Year 2 World Book Day
We had fun reading with our reading buddies to celebrate world book day.
World Book Day
Reception have explored lots of books this week. We especially loved The Colour Monster and The Little Mermaid! We have been inspired creatively by our books. Look at our creations:
Year One & Year Five Reading Buddy Time
We have thoroughly enjoyed sharing and reading a range of books to celebrate World Book Day.
6B World Book Day- Reading Buddies
6B enjoyed our World Book Day Reading session with 2D this afternoon. Lots of lovely stories were shared in the school library!
6MR and 2S Reading Buddies- World Book Day
6MR have enjoyed reading with the children from 2S during our session today. Lots of stories were shared!
Year 5 World Book Day -Reading Buddies
We have loved sharing stories with the younger children this afternoon. Some of the stories were really funny too!
World Book Day 🌎📚
Reception had some special visitors this afternoon. Year 4 came down to read some of our favourite stories!
WORLD BOOK DAY📚
For world book day, we are celebrating colour. Year 4 enjoyed a morning of books with the theme of colour in our colourful clothing. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷
World Book Day
We are dressed in beautiful colours today to celebrate World Book Day! We talked about all the colours we could see on our clothes – our carpet looked like a rainbow today 🌈 we read the Colour Monster book, and spotted the colours from the story on our clothes!
library visit
4D enjoyed some time reading for pleasure in our school library today 📚
Y2 English
2D were fabulous actors after investigating the clues and predicting what our new text was about.
Reading Cafe
Year 5 and 6 had a wonderful time at our reading cafe yesterday, as part of the National Literacy event. We enjoyed finding new books, having a biscuit and a drink and even being able to take that book home!
New books
We’ve started 2 news books in 4C. ‘The Lost Happy Endings’ by Carol Ann Duffy is our vehicle text in English and ‘The Lost thing’ by Shaun Tan is our class reader.
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Welcome back Year 5!
We hope you have had a fabulous half term and are feeling refocused and ready to learn!
Please remember to bring your reading books and your signed reading record with you to school!
See you in school, Miss Martin and Mrs Holland
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Year 4 – Reading
After half term, the expectation will be for all children to have their reading book in school every day.
Collaboration and communication in action!
5M helped each other to improve their writing by sharing ideas and giving feedback. Some used a dictionary to check difficult spellings.
Partnership Week – USI
It was lovely to share stories and examples of pupils writing with United School International this week. 1J Stockton Wood met 1D United School International.
Poetry performances
Today we performed poems that we have explored this week in our Ready Steady Comprehension sessions. We tried to use a range of expressive strategies to enhance our performance.
Year 2 Ready Steady Comprehension
What a lot of fun we had performing our poems in our session this morning. Lots of confident performances with lots of expression! I was very proud of all of the children- Mrs Kent 🙂
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Year 2 Reading
Another fun time exploring books in our library, we even found books about the victorians which ties into our History topic all about Kitty Wilkinson.
