Reading

Year R

Module 1

Story Vote Station

Every day we vote as a class on the storybook to read at the end of the day. We listen to the book title and blurb to help us decide on which book we want to choose. We compare and count the vote to find the winning book. We can also make suggestions about which book to add to the daily vote.

DM Literacy - 3-4 Understand the five key concepts about print: - print has meaning - print can have different purposes - we read English text from left to right and from top to bottom - the names of the different parts of a book - page sequencing. Engage in extended conversations about stories, learning new vocabulary

Morning Book Share & Book Corners

Every morning, when we come into school, we sit and share books with adults and our friends in the class. We talk about the pictures, characters and stories. During the day we can visit the book corners in the classrooms and our outside reading teepee.

DM Literacy - 3-4 Understand the five key concepts about print: - print has meaning - print can have different purposes - we read English text from left to right and from top to bottom - the names of the different parts of a book - page sequencing. Engage in extended conversations about stories, learning new vocabulary

Sharing books

Bringing books to life!

Reading outside

We have started taking wordless picture books home to share with our adults at home

Applying our phonics sounds

We have been working on applying the sounds we have learnt to read simple words. We segment the words using the sound buttons, saying a sound for each grapheme then blend the sounds we have said to say the word. We are developing our independence in blending the sounds.

DM - Literacy - Reception - Read individual letters by saying the sounds for them. • Blend sounds into words, so that they can read short words made up of known letter-sound correspondences.

Drawing Club - Leaf Man

We listened to and re-read the story of Leaf Man. This linked to our inquiry into Autumn. We explored the sequence, characters and setting. We learnt new vocabulary linked to the book (but not necessarily directly in the book)

heap rustle glide

soaring fluttering marsh

orchard rustle drifting

DM - C&L - Enjoy listening to longer stories and can remember much of what happens. • Pay attention to more than one thing at a time, which can be difficult. • Use a wider range of vocabulary Learn new vocabulary.

Drawing Club - Christopher Pumpkin

We listened to and re-read the story of Christopher Pumpkin. This linked to our inquiry into Autumn and the Halloween celebration that happens at the end of October. We explored the sequence, characters and setting. We learnt more new vocabulary linked to the story, adding actions to help us to understand and remember.

celebration hair-raising cheerful

surprise industrious disasterful

terrified plotting

DM - C&L - Enjoy listening to longer stories and can remember much of what happens. • Pay attention to more than one thing at a time, which can be difficult. • Use a wider range of vocabulary

Module 2

Applying our phonics to read CVC words

As we are learning more and more phonic sounds, we are applying the sounds to read words by ourselves. We enjoyed playing the 'Pick a Picture' game on the interactive whiteboard. Click on the link to play it at home (select phase 2)
DM - Literacy - Rec - Read individual letters by saying the sounds for them. • Blend sounds into words, so that they can read short words made up of known letter-sound correspondences.

Pick A Picture

Drawing Club - Rama and Sita

As part of our inquiry into the Hindu festival of light Diwali, we focused on the story of Rama and Sita. In this story Prince Rama enlists the aid of a tribe of monkeys and the Queen of the seas to rescue Sita from Ravana, The King of the demons.

Vocabulary focus. swooping warrior cottage fetching petrified gather

searched gigantic island halt

DM - C&L - Enjoy listening to longer stories and can remember much of what happens.. • Use a wider range of vocabulary Learn new vocabulary.

Drawing Club - Every Bee's Birthday

As part of our inquiry into birthday celebrations we read the story Every Bee's Birthday. The story explores the idea that every birthday is special.

Vocabulary focus.

hatch determined antennae

disappointing bunting blocked hover

merry sneak peer

DM - C&L - Enjoy listening to longer stories and can remember much of what happens.. • Use a wider range of vocabulary . Learn new vocabulary.

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Mystery Reader

To kick off our mystery readers, we had a visit from Mr Bullock. We needed to guess the clues he left us to work out who he was before he knocked on the door. He read 'There's an elf in your book' to start our Christmas celebrations.

DM - C&L - Understand how to listen carefully and why listening is important.

Drawing Club - The Christmas Pine

As part of our Christmas celebrations, we found out about the tradition of Norway gifting a tree to the UK each year. The tree is then put on display in Trafalgar Square in London. We read the story of The Christmas Pine by Julia Donaldson. We have begun to focus on writing captions and sentences.

Vocabulary focus. ancient iridescent soaring remote

journeyed gape warble absent

DM - C&L - Enjoy listening to longer stories and can remember much of what happens.. • Use a wider range of vocabulary . Learn new vocabulary.

Phonics - Unit 1 and 2a

We have worked hard in phonics and have learnt many sounds. We are now using all of the sounds to read words, captions and sentences.

DM - Literacy - Rec - Read individual letters by saying the sounds for them. • Blend sounds into words, so that they can read short words made up of known letter-sound correspondences. Read some letter groups that each represent one sound and say sounds for them. • Read a few common exception words matched to the school’s phonic programme. • Read simple phrases and sentences made up of words with known letter–sound correspondences and, where necessary, a few exception words.

Module 3

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