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  • About Us
    • Welcome
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  • Key Information
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    • Policies
    • Pupil Premium and Sports Premium
  • Parents
    • App
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    • Class Info
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      • Home Learning Links
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      • Maths at Home (Calculation Policy)
    • Inclusion
      • Anxiety
      • Autism and ADHD
      • Dyslexia
      • Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA)
      • Emotional Regulation
      • Place 2 Be
      • Routines and Transition
      • Sensory Support
      • Sleep Support
    • Letters
    • Online Safety
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      • Year 3 – Knowledge Organisers
      • Year 4 – Knowledge Organisers
      • Year 5 – Knowledge Organisers
      • Year 6 – Knowledge Organisers
    • Subject Intent & Implementation
    • Progression Grids
    • Reading

Reading

> Our Brooklands Curriculum > Our Curriculum > Reading

EYFS:

At Brooklands, we value reading and our aim is for all children to leave Brooklands as a lifelong reader. Please see below for details of how reading is taught in each year group across the school.

Nursery

Using ‘Little Wandle Foundations for phonics’, children begin to develop early reading skills such as oral segmenting, oral blending and the ability to hear initial sounds in words.

They have a weekly class library session.

Reception

Children have a daily phonics lesson as a whole class using ‘Little Wandle’  

Children who need some extra help with phonics may have a catch up session called ‘Little Blenders’ 

Children have 3 small group reading sessions each week focusing on decoding (use of phonics), prosody (fluency/tone) and comprehension

Children who need additional support with reading have 1:1 reading sessions 3 times per week

Reception have a session every two weeks in the school library

There is a daily story time based on the children’s choices

KS1:

Year One

Children have a daily phonics lesson as a whole class using ‘Little Wandle’  

Children who need some extra help with phonics may have a catch up session called ‘Little Blenders’ 

Children have 3 small group reading sessions each week focusing on decoding (use of phonics), prosody (fluency/tone) and comprehension 

Year One have daily story time – this may be a picture book or longer chapter book

Year Two

Children have at least one reading lessons each week which focus on developing comprehension skills 

Children who still need to learn some phonic sounds have catch up sessions each day with a Teaching Assistant 

Year Two have daily story time – this may be a picture book or longer chapter book

KS2:

Year Three and Four

Children have 2 reading lessons each week which focus on developing comprehension skills 

Children who still need to learn some phonic sounds have catch up sessions each day with a Teaching Assistant 

Children reading banded books read weekly with an adult 

Children choose a book from the class or school library to read in class

Year Three and Four read daily, either in class story time or as part of an English lesson

Year Five and Six

Children have 2 reading lessons each week which focus on developing comprehension skills 

Children reading banded books read weekly with an adult 

Children choose a book from the class or school library to read in class

Year Five and Six read daily, either in class story time or as part of an English lesson

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  • Our Brooklands Curriculum
  • Year Group Overviews
  • Knowledge Organisers
    • – Year 1 – Knowledge Organisers
    • – Year 2 – Knowledge Organisers
    • – Year 3 – Knowledge Organisers
    • – Year 4 – Knowledge Organisers
    • – Year 5 – Knowledge Organisers
    • – Year 6 – Knowledge Organisers
  • Subject Intent & Implementation
  • Progression Grids
  • Reading
  • Reporting to Parents
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