Reading, Phonics and Spelling
Our youngest children begin their adventure into the world of reading with the aid of a reading scheme which is linked to our phonics programme, Little Wandle. The progression of reading books provides a structure and an approach with texts of increasing complexity to help build and develop reading skills and promote a love of books.
Big Cat’s new Phonics books is a series of beautifully presented books fully aligned to our phonics scheme, Little Wandle. Pupils can enjoy engaging stories and explore exciting non-fiction topics whilst practising and consolidating all of the required phonemes and graphemes throughout the phases. Reading notes are provided inside every book, providing clear and simple support for reading including modelling fluency, learning objectives, phonic practice and vocabulary extension activities for ‘after reading’.
Recommended reads for each year group
We encourage children to read on a daily basis and ask parents to listen to their children reading out loud to promote a love of books. To encourage children's reading and promote high quality texts with a range of technical language and vocabulary, we have put together a 'recommended reading' list for every year group. Whilst we appreciate our younger children may not be able to read the texts independently themselves, we encourage parents to share books on a daily basis, discussing the story content and asking questions about the text to promote skills of prediction, inference and deduction skills.
Did you know that children 'learn to read' up until the age of 8, then they should be 'reading to learn' from age 8 upwards? Reading is such an important life skill and we need to promote this with our children.
