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Reading
Implementation
At Darras Hall Primary School we follow Little Wandle Letters & Sounds Revised to teach phonics in Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and, where necessary, Year 2. Children take part in daily phonics sessions in a whole class or as part of a group. At the end of Year 1 children take the Phonics Screening Check. Some children may continue with phonics in Year 3 and beyond if required.
Children have a wide selection of books to choose from to apply their skills to read. For emerging readers, their reading books are closely matched to the phonics they are learning in class so are known as decodable texts.
As they progress and become secure with phonics, children are introduced to a wider range of books within Accelerated Reader, where children move through levels as their reading progresses. Accelerated Reader has a strong focus on gaining meaning from a wide range of high quality texts and includes short online quizzes matched to books that the children have read.
Children's understanding of texts is developed using the Reciprocal Reading approach. Reciprocal reading is a structured approach to teaching strategies (questioning, clarifying, summarising and predicting) that pupils can use to improve their reading comprehension.