At Hill Farm, we intend to ignite a passion for reading that empowers every child to become a confident reader, cultivating a love for books where reading serves as a gateway to both learning and exploration.
Children start the RWI (Read Write Inc) programme in nursery where they develop pre-phonic skills through play activities that enhance listening, rhyme, alliteration, sentence construction, and oral blending. In the summer term, nursery children begin learning their first sounds and continue this as they transition to Reception. The RWI program progresses through Key Stage 1, increasing in complexity with sounds, texts, retrieval, and inference until children complete the program. To support with the transition into Key Stage 2, children complete the RWI Comprehension Programme in Year 2 to help build children’s confidence in using a variety of strategies beyond their phonics skills and improving their retrieval and inference abilities. If needed, this support can extend into Key Stage 2.
In Key Stage 2, children have daily whole class reading lessons which continue to develop children’s fluency, comprehension and vocabulary. Whole school reading strategies used to develop fluency include text marking, jump in, choral and echo. Class texts have been carefully chosen to link with current cross-curricular topics and to reflect the diversity within our schools.
Reading with your child at home is vitally important to ensure that they are developing their understanding of the world, improving their reading skills, whilst also promoting a love of reading. Sometimes it can be hard to find the time, but research suggests that reading aloud to children or children reading aloud to an adult, even if only for a short time each day, develops their language skills, as well as enhancing their love of literature.
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