As part of our literacy programme, children learn to recoginse sounds in words and how we write and these as letters. We encourage children to say words and listen to the sounds they hear. We show children the letters that we use to represent the many different sounds. There are many online resources to support your child with letters and sounds. One resource we use in school is Reading Eggs and Fast Phonics.  Children read in school most days of the week, once they know their first set of sounds.  They will sometimes read individually or in a group. 

We share a range of different stories and texts in class with children every day. We encourage children to think about the text and answer questions or make predictions about it. It's vital that children are read to regularly, even as they become competent readers, as this continues to develop them as readers and their passion and interest in reading.  We love learning about reading and writing using a mentor text. Some of the books we have read so far are: ‘Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish’, ‘The Sea Saw’, ‘Jim and the Beanstalk’ and ‘Astro Girl.’ 

Here we are next to a beanstalk which sprouted up in class before we read, ‘Jim and the Beanstalk.’