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Talk 4 Writng:
School) as confdent, fuent and able readers. We also have e-books matched to sounds for our early readers in Years Nursery to Year 3. All children practce their developing reading skills through daily phonics lessons (Infants), Talk 4 Writng, regular guided reading and individual reading scheme books (fully book banded). Each classroom has a dedicated reading area to encourage access to quality reading material and to promote a whole-school approach to the 'love of reading'. We have an extensive school library, which has recently been r e-fted and re-stocked, used by confdent readers in Key Stages 1 and 2. The process for borrowing books from the library, using an electronic record system, has been updated so that children and parents can browse the library stock, reserve books and review them all from home. We also have a commited group of reading volunteers who provide additonal reading opportunites for some of our children. These volunteers are fully DBS checked and receive training on how to support children with their reading. If you would like to volunteer regularly in school, please talk to our team!
At Abbey we use 'Talk for Writng' as our approach to teaching writng. Developed by Pie Corbet, this highly efectve approach is based on the principles of how children learn to write. If a child cannot compose a piece of writng orally before they begin to write, then they will have a difculty writng independently. So, the frst stage of teaching children how to write is to ask children to imitate the key language they need for a partcular topic orally before they try reading and analysing it. Over a three or four-week unit of 'Talk 4 Writng' the children partcipate in a range of actvites that help them rehearse the tune of the language they need , followed by shared writng to show them how to craf their writng . Children are then supported to compose their own pieces. Children are given the opportunity to extend their writng and apply their knowledge and skills to cross curricular writng tasks. The 'Talk 4 Writng' approach is combined with 'Alan Peat's Sentence Types' and other grammar type actvites to ensure that children are taught essental skills of grammar and punctuaton. At Abbey we have created an agreed teaching schedule of these 'sentence types' which meet the needs of the English Natonal Curriculum. Phonics We efectvely use a s ynthetc and systematc approach to teaching Early Years and Key Stage One children phonics . We use the Department for Educaton's 'Leters and Sounds' schema (for the programme and progress), alongside 'Phonics Play' resources, to assist staf with teaching and learning and planning. This results in our young children quickly becoming confdent readers. Children at our Nursery (FS1) learn Phase One of 'Leters and Sounds', identfying environmental and musical sounds, and learning how to identfy individual sounds in words. For Recepton (FS2), they are taught phases two to four, learning leter sounds, 'tricky words' and diagraphs/ trigraphs. More able pupils progress to phase fve. At Year One, some children repeat phase four and most start phase fve, learning spelling paterns, 'tricky words' and high frequency words. Year Two children are taught phase six, practsing and applying their phonic knowledge. In 2023-24, children will have extra teaching in phonics to ensure they have completed the teaching in their phase.
Reading Scheme
Our reading scheme is fully matched to the sounds that children learn in their phonics lessons. Once they have secured all the sounds and become profcient readers, they use book banded books (matched to their reading age) throughout the school, which supports our approach to teaching reading. In our Early Years phase, we use a range of books across diferent series to help children decode words and read 'tricky words' taught in their phonics level. This is supplemented by books from other publishers to give a varied range of reading material. Our aim is that by the end of Key Stage 1 (Infant School), children are ready for Key Stage 2 (Junior
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