Kirkstall St. Stephen's C of E

English

Parent/ Carer comments and feedback

Reading Open Morning Wednesday 4th July 2018

Thank you to all those of you who attended our Reading Open Morning. We had some lovely, positive feedback, here are a few of the written feedback comments we recieved.

"Found the talk on the Key Reading Skills really helpful & tips for encouraging at home. Interesting to see this played out in different ways with different ages & abilities. Thanks"
"Very informative talk before joining the children. Lovely to see the children enjoying the books."
"Thanks very much for the opportunity to see how you've developed reading. It all seems great! :-) "
"Very informative and interesting. Good to see how older/more advanced readers will be developed. Thanks"
"Thank you for a really informative morning, and taking time to inform us. It was really interesting to see how you are making reading more interesting and also more understanding for the children".
"A really interesting insight into reading".
"Very Informative and a great opportunity to find out about 1:1 Reading and the skill letter code, which will be used in Year 1 with my daughter. I will work on retrieval at home with J to develop her reading."
"Really useful to see how the curriculum in different classes are learning and practicing reading. I think the new methods look interesting and varied and I think my child will respond well to
them. Also useful for teachers to assess the reading in a structured way."

One to One Reading across school

At Kirkstall St Stephen's we teach reading through the 'ten key skills' which are: Goal Preview Monitor Visualise Infer Question Retrieval Vocabulary Summarise Predict

Letter to parents 1-1 readers.doc

Year Group	AUTUMN 1	AUTUMN 2	SPRING 1	SPRING 2	SUMMER 1	SUMMER 2
1	Recount Harry and the Robots Toys- non-fiction text	Poetry - fireworks Information texts – nocturnal animals Narrative - stickman	Stories from other cultures Information texts about a country not in the EU	Traditional tales	Pirate stories How to be a pirate non- fiction text Chants	Diary Supertato
2	Fantasy Stories Humorous poems	Repetitive poems Character descriptions Letters	Fairy tales Instructions Recounts	Diary entries Recounts letters	Traditional tales Chronological reports	Information texts Shape poetry
3	Recounts, newspaper reports, poetry, extended stories	Persuasive writing, newspaper reports, letter writing	Non chronological report, instructions poetry	Recount, persuasive writing, letters, stories	Playscripts, Haikus, non fiction writing	Playscripts, recounts
4	Stories by the same author, adventure stories / persuasive writing	Explanation texts, Biographies, Adventure stories	Myths & Legends Creating own myths	Shape poetry/ non chronological reports	Recount – newspapers Image poetry	Stories from other cultures, traditional poems
5	Iron Man Sci-Fi story (link to balanced arguments, newspaper reports and fantasy story writing) Recounts (UFO)	Biography/Auto-biographies Argument & Debate (graffiti) Instructions (How to be an Anglo-Saxon)	Drama – Shakespeare (Romeo & Juliet/Macbeth) Newspaper/Report Writing	Fantasy fiction (How to train your dragon) Spooky Stories - Alma Slam Poetry	Image Poetry – The Titanic Non-fiction - Letters	Fantasy fiction – The Hobbit Short stories – Journey to inner Suburbia
6	Folktales Vanishing rainforest The Great Kapok Tree	Christmas Carol The Firework makers daughter	Street Child Oliver Twist Cruel Victorians	Goodnight Mr Tom Rose Blanche The Lion and The Unicorn	Romeo and Juliet Macbeth The Whisperer	Kenzuke’s Kingdom Improve skills and ready for High School

Curriculum Overview

literacy overview.doc

World Book Day 2018

At KSS we all dressed up as our favourite character on World Book Day. The teachers performed an assembly for the children based on famous characters from popular children's books. In the afternoon the parents joined us to read with the children. It was lovely to see so many parents attend!

Our aim is to foster a love of reading so that children read for pleasure and enjoyment!

Here at Kirkstall St Stephen’s English is a core subject and is embedded across the curriculum. It is a life skill which is essential to the development of the child and will help enhance learning in all areas. The acquisition of English is essential since it encompasses all areas of learning and as such we would encourage, where appropriate, a cross curricular approach to the teaching of English as this can be exploited to provide meaningful learning contexts.

At Kirkstall St Stephens we strive to achieve a more creative and experiential approach to the curriculum. We strive to create a community of readers and writers who use their skills confidently and competently.

Here at Kirkstall St Stephen's we initially teaching reading through a synthetic phonics programme.
We use:

Jolly phonics (Reception)
Letters and sounds (Year 1 and 2)
Rising stars weekly spelling tests

In Year 2 and key stage 2 we also use:

A variety of texts linking to topics to teach the 10 key comprehension skills.

Various different resources and book schemes to teach the national curriculum comprehension skills for each year goup

Reading Information for Parents

The attached files for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 contain the following key information for parents: * Book bands

Kirkstall St. Stephen’s C of E (Voluntary Aided) Primary School

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