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Useful Reading Aides

Reading Guide

The reading guide button allows the user to have a reading guide that will appear on the y & x axis. (Think of it like using your finger to guide you eyes over the words you should be reading on a book).

Highlight Reading Guide

The hightlight reading guide button allows the user to have a reading guide that will highlight a strip on the page to view.

Phonics & Reading

Reading is extremely important to us. It is imperative we enable children to become independent readers who can easily process information, fully engage in all learning and be well prepared for their next stage of their education. Reading is at the heart of our whole curriculum underpinning every subject area. Children are exposed to a wide range of texts. We promote a love of learning through our Book Award initiative. By offering a wide range of texts we aim to broaden their minds and experiences to allow them to empathise with the world in which they live and support the development of their cultural capital.

We teach early reading through the systematic, synthetic phonics programme Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised. Right from the start of Reception children have a daily phonics lesson which follows the progression for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds and this continues in Year One to ensure children become fluent readers. We teach phonics for 30 minutes a day. In Reception, we build from 10-minute lessons, with additional daily oral blending games, to the full-length lesson as quickly as possible. Each Friday, we review the week’s teaching to help children become fluent readers. Children make a strong start in Reception: teaching begins from the moment pupils start school in the autumn term.

Information for parents about this reading program can be found here: https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

Reading at home (Reception and Year 1)

Pupils will bring home a reading book that has been carefully matched to your child’s current reading level. If your child is reading it with little help, please don’t worry that it’s too easy – your child needs to develop fluency and confidence in reading. Listen to them read the book. Remember to give them lots of praise – celebrate their success! If they can’t read a word, ask them to decode (sound it out) and blend it. After they have finished, talk about the book together.

Pupils will have a reading book assigned to them online via the Colling reading portal/ Each child has an individual account, with a book set for them by their teacher. This portal will be used predominantly during holiday times as having a ‘real’ book to hold is always preferable.

Early Reading and Phonics Policy Parent Resources
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