Cherrywood Community Primary School
English
We will strive for all our children to leave Cherrywood with the English skills to have equal opportunities to peers so that they can make their own informed choices.
We believe that it is vital for children to learn to read and write confidently in order for them to become independent learners.
By exposing children to a wide range of spelling strategies, we will ensure that children are equipped to understand and confidently read and spell words that they might not have heard in every day conversation or seen in a written format.
Starting from an early age, our children will be inspired to develop fluency in reading so that they can understand what they have read and make links to the wider world. From their first full day in Reception, children will be taught the skills needed to read words and sentences fluently.
Through listening to and joining in with a wide range of engaging stories from the start of school, our children will have an ambition to read a range of interesting and challenging texts and will show curiosity to want to learn more. We will ensure that, through this, children will leave Cherrywood School with a passion and love of reading across all curriculum subjects and beyond.
Golden Threads
| Curiosity and Ambition | Fluency | Spelling |
Year R | Showing interest in illustrations and print in the environment | Sounding out words to read | Learning tricky red words alongside phonics sounds |
Year 1 | Joining in with discussion about texts | Being able to read words without sounding out | All of the year 1 high frequency words |
Year 2 | Becoming increasingly familiar with and retelling fairy tales and wide range of stories | Speed of reading | All of the year 2 high frequency words |
Year 3 | Asking and answering questions appropriately | Linking speed to comprehension | Strategies and patterns for words from the national curriculum and common homophones |
Year 4 | Discussing and comparing a wide variety of texts/writers | Expression | Strategies and patterns for spelling words on the statutory spelling list |
Year 5 | Reading a wide range of genres and identifying different text types | Fluency with more difficult texts | Linking patterns and sounds in spellings to help with unfamiliar words |
Year 6 | Reading for pleasure, discussing, comparing and evaluating in depth across a range of genres | Fluency with a range of texts | Recognise where spellings may be incorrect and use strategies and resources |