Here at Lift Hall Road, we believe that equipping children with the correct phonetical skills from an early age will allow all pupils to achieve and set them up for a flying tart, enabling them to access all parts of the curriculum.
Through the teaching of segmenting and blending, following the RWInc phonics scheme, we strive for every pupil to become fluent and confident readers. We place the teaching of phonics at the heart of our school with the aim of every child becoming a reader.
At Hall Road, we follow the Ruth Miskin RWInc scheme which is a carefully sequenced synthetics phonics programme. All pupils, will reach their full potential by initially learning to say sounds, to being able to recognise and read sounds to eventually blending sounds together to be able to read words. This sequence of learning then further develops, to place a high emphasis on fluency through the teaching of matching green words, story green words and red words whilst exposing children to their matching decoding ability books and high quality texts.
The sequence is fast paced and progressive - allowing children to continuously consolidate their learning and reduce their cognitive load through consistent routines within teaching across the school.
Children will develop their phonetical knowledge through phonics sessions, twice daily. Children will be placed into discrete phonics groups, carefully matched to their ability. This will be determined through termly RWInc assesment’s to check progress and ensure that children are grouped carefully to match their needs. These groups are purposefully fluid as progress is informally assessed on a daily basis. Children are able to develop their fluency and speedy reading through a well-developed daily speed sounds lesson. Within this, children have the opportunity to learn a new sound, revisit and consolidate previous sounds and put them into practice by blending words together. This is combined with a variety of carefully matched story books to correlate with their decoding skills with the aim to build fluency, comprehension and vocabulary. Their learning process is the consistent exposure to new sounds followed by consolidation through blending and revisiting previously learnt sounds to embed their crucial phonetical knowledege to enable
The children will develop their phonetical knowledge through phonics sessions, twice daily. Children will be placed into discrete phonics groups, carefully matched to their ability. This will be determined through termly RWInc assesment’s to check progress and ensure that children are grouped carefully to match their needs. These groups are purposefully fluid as progress is informally assessed on a daily basis. Children are able to develop their fluency and speedy reading through a well-developed daily speed sounds lesson. Within this, children have the opportunity to learn a new sound, revisit and consolidate previous sounds and put them into practice by blending words together. This is combined with a variety of carefully matched story books to correlate with their decoding skills with the aim to build fluency, comprehension and vocabulary. Their learning process is the consistent exposure to new sounds followed by consolidation through blending and revisiting previously learnt sounds to embed their crucial phonetical knowldege to enable
