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Reading at St Aloysius

Reading at St Aloysius

Early Reading and Phonics

The teaching of reading at St Aloysius begins in our EYFS, with our children sharing books with adults and listening to many stories each day. The children access daily phonics lessons, as developing secure phonetic awareness and the ability to accurately segment and blend phonemes and graphemes is the first step towards fluency.

Read Write Inc is our scheme for the daily, focused teaching of systematic synthetic phonics in Reception and Key Stage 1. We send RWI Book Bag Books home, to ensure the children are reading books containing sounds they know and have been taught.

Examples of Reading at St Aloysius

We share stories in our outdoor provision in EYFS

We invite our families in for reading events such as 'Books for Bedtime'

We love inviting our families in to read with us

We enjoy focusing on new texts each term

Our youngest children are learning to retell familiar stories

We read books from our Reading Passport

We love our reading shed in EYFS

We visit our local library with our families

Our older children read to our younger children

We read every day!

We develop a bank of favourite stories and share them with others

All classes visit the library throughout the year

We dedicate time to read for pleasure

We encourage our families to access the lending library

We learn to read from the beginning of Reception

We celebrate World Book Day

We develop our reading skills through VIPERS lessons

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We enjoy reading for pleasure every day

Completing our Reading Passports