Reading
For children who attend our school, parents can log onto our communication and behaviour platform, Class Dojo, to see what their child has been learning.
Little Wandle Phonics
At Roseberry we teach the specific skills of decoding through a whole school consistent approach using the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds revised programme i.e. phonics. Daily phonics sessions take place every day from Nursery to Year 2. Phonics sessions are interactive and fun to enthuse children about reading from an early age.
The Little Wandle website also has some useful videos for parents, modelling the correct pronunciation of the sounds the children learn in their phonics lessons.
Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 pupils also take part in Practice Reading Sessions three times a week as part of the Little Wandle programme. These sessions focus on developing decoding, prosody and comprehension skills.
To find out more about your child’s reading journey this year, please see the documents below from Little Wandle.
Reception- Your child’s reading journey Autumn term
Year 1- Your child’s reading journey
Junior pupils may also access phonics teaching through Little Wandle catch up lessons.
Here are some useful guides to support your child at home with the pronunciation of Phase 2, 3 and 5 sounds.
Phase 2 graphemes- pronunciation guide
Phase 2 graphemes- pronunciation guide part 2
How to say Phase 3 sounds
How to say Phase 5 sounds
Whole class reading
Whole class reading is a shared approach to developing both fluency and understanding across a range of texts in KS2. Children work collaboratively to read aloud every day, discussing and analysing extracts from either the novel that is being read or a series of texts with a particular theme every week. This approach allows all children to take part in valuable peer talk and teacher led activities which are focused around the domains for reading in KS2.
Reading for pleasure
Above all, we endeavour to instil a love of reading in all children and focus on reading for pleasure across the school. We hold reading events every term where parents are invited to school to read with their children.
Autumn: Share a Christmas Story – children and their parents listen to the teacher read a Christmas story and then they undertake a Christmas craft activity together linked to the book
Spring: World Book Day – our school focus for World Book Day is traditional tales that the children may not have encountered before, e.g. Rumpelstiltskin, Aesop’s Fables. Children are tasked with a home-learning project before World Book Day e.g. decorate a pebble or a wooden spoon with a favourite book character or create a character mask. The children bring these to school on World Book Day to share with their class. Parents and carers are invited into school during the afternoon to read with their children. Families are grouped together for this reading opportunity.
Library Visits
Each week, children from year 1 – year 6 visit the school library where they can browse the large selection of books and choose a book to take home with them to share with their family. We also offer times for parents to visit our library to choose a book from our...
Paired Reading
Every week, each class pairs with another to share a book together. Younger children have the opportunity to be read to by an older child, or to practise their reading skills to an older audience. We have found this to be a thoroughly enjoyable activity for the...
Author Visits
We often invite authors to come into our school to work with the children. Most recently, Sarah Morrell, author of the ‘Molly’s Magic Brolly’ visited us and regaled children with stories of her life and writing practices.
Book Fayres
Scholastic Book Fayres are well-supported by our children and their parents and families. We try to coordinate the Book Fayre with our reading events. The commission raised through these events are used to buy books to enhance our classroom libraries.
Book Group
Mrs Dunn and Miss Blakeney run a Book Group that has proven extremely popular with our upper key stage 2 pupils. Who wouldn’t enjoy the chance to sit down with friends to explore and discuss opinions on a shared text? Especially, when there’s an end of year tea...
Bedtime Stories
Every Friday, children in EYFS and KS1 take home a ‘Bedtime Storybook’. These books are for parents to read to their child and explore together.
Roseberry’s Reading Shelf
We encourage our children to read at home and develop a love for reading. We send each of our children home with two/three books a week to share with their parents/carers. Children who read for 15 minutes three times a week are entered into our prize draw and could...
Reading for Pleasure
Above all, we endeavour to instil a love of reading in all children and focus on reading for pleasure across the school. We hold reading events every term where parents are invited to school to read with their children. Autumn: Share a Christmas Story – children and...