Early Reading Bundle - SSP, Reading Group Script and Reading Policy

An Early Reading Bundle! This has taken a year to finalise and 4 drafts of the Reading Policy and 12 drafts of the reading curriculum! Hopefully it saves some people time!

‘How to do…’ daily reading in the Lower School (EYFS to Y2). Photos have been obscured but kept in so you can see what the sessions look like.
Feel free to use and amend/edit/adapt to fit your reading policy- saving you starting from scratch!

The Reading Curriculum (SSP) with matched LW books to the teaching of phonics mapped across the weeks, years from reception to Autumn year 2. GPCs have been chosen from those we previously taught plus those introduced through LW books but not all. I cross-referenced the GPCs coming up in the LW books and found many ‘GPCs’ that were in the KS2 spelling sppendices. I chose GPCs to teach that were popular and appeared many times in many books or if they had a useful spelling pattern that could be applied to more words. Those not chosen are taught in a phonics lesson as tricky words and/or as flashcards at the start of the reading session. We made these choices over and over whilst teaching last year, hence why we are on draft 12! Feel free to adapt and make your own choices that work for you and your lower school.

Reading Script for reading sessions
This is the structure of our reading sessions. In y1 these are 15minutes long 4 times a week and in reception 10mins long 4 times a week. Groups are 6 children max and each group has an adult. We use scripts in order to keep the level of teaching the same across adults and groups. We rotate adults across the groups over a term. The focused teaching points are also given to parents so they know how to support their child at home.