When supporting pupil’s literacy development I need to be aware of our schools procedure, as they no longer hold a literacy policy.
Our schools approach to the teaching of reading, writing, speaking and listening follow the national guidelines.
What is R W Inc this is a lively and vigorous teaching of synthetic phonics where the children learn 44 common sounds in the English language, and how to sound-blend words for reading at the same time developing writing skills, and spelling.
They read lively storybooks and nonfiction books, with words they can decode, this is so they achieve early success in reading, with the more sounds they know they will know the greater range of texts they can read.
R W Inc in EYFS Developing Nursery/ reception phonological awareness turning into sounds e.g. put your hand on your H E D , B O T L E G, so they are learning to blend and writing them down as they are sounding them out. Speed sound set 1
They are also learning to make their writing skills readable and by the end of the foundation stage, for example linking sounds and letters they are currently as follows, hear and say sounds in words in order in which they occur, Link sounds to letters naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet.
Using the phonic knowledge to write simple regular words and make phonetically plausible attempts to write words that are more complex.
R W Inc, foundation stage and key stages 1,2 they all have speed sound sets for different sets , speed sound set 3 for year 1 and 2
Every week, they are given spellings and at the end of every half term the children are given, a big spelling test and these consist of 30 words from spelling units that were taught over the half term red words and comprehension units.
After the holidays, they are tested with the teacher marking them if they score 28, 29, and 30 they can go to Mrs.