At Melton, we want the children to develop a love of reading that will serve them well for the rest of their lives. We want to help them to take joy in the texts they read. Our curriculum is driven by quality texts which provide the stimuli for increasing knowledge, developing thinking, promoting questioning and encouraging exploring across all subjects.
Phonics
We teach phonics using Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised. More information on this can be found on their website.
Reading
Once children are able to decode fluently, we use a whole-class approach to teaching reading. This involves teaching children to read fluently (i.e. with accuracy, automaticity and prosody), to develop their comprehension skills and to develop a love of reading.
Children have access to a wide range of books from our school library that they read independently. In addition to this, we use high-quality texts to support our teaching of reading and writing.
