Literacy



Within our schools we use The Read Write Inc. programme for the teaching of early reading. This ensures that children are ready to begin the more formal aspect of phonics teaching at the beginning of the Reception year. It is our aim that, by the end of the reception year, children are able to read and write short sentences and books using at least one way to represent each common phoneme within the alphabetic  code and learn one way of representing each sound. We also ensure that children are exposed to high quality literature through the use of our daily Talk Through Stories sessions and exposure to favourite five texts. This allows us to develop children's love of reading and supports vocabulary development.


We begin the Read Write Inc. programme with our Nursery children in the Summer term. Before children begin their phonics journey, we focus on speaking and listening development. This means we focus on building the foundations for phonics skills by developing children’s ability to hear and discriminate sounds, say words, orally blend sounds into words and develop a child's ability to listen to, make, explore and talk about sounds.  When children are ready, they will move on to the school’s RWI phonics program. This is usually in the last term of Nursery. 

Early Years Reading Overview_

Here is the Reading overview for REMAT Early Years.

EYs Literacy Parent Handouts Pre-Nursery-2

Click to see the Reading texts that Pre-Nursery will be exploring over the year. 


EYs Literacy Parent Handouts Nursery-2

Click to see the Reading texts that Nursery will be exploring over the year. 


EYs Literacy Parent Handouts Reception-2

Click to see the Reading texts that Reception will be exploring over the year. 


Early Years Writing Overview_

Here is the Writing overview for REMAT Early Years. 

handwriting phrases.pdf

These handwriting phrases are what we use in Read, Write, Inc.


You can use these to support your child with their letter formation. 

stages of writing dev

Here is an example of the development progression of a child's writing. 

You will see how it slowly builds up, from mark-making to eventually being able to write a sentence using capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop. 

Fred Games.docx

Here are some Fred Games that you can play with your child to support them in being able to orally blend souds together. 

Copy of reading_at_home.pdf

Here are some reasons why reading to your child at home is so important.