Reading

Each child will receive four reading books a week which are suited to their ability. Please hear your child read daily for 10 minutes and record this in their reading record. They are given certificates for the amount of nights that they have read. Their books will be changed twice a week depending on which House they are in. Please make sure your child’s reading folder is in their book bag every day.

St Mark and St Matthew books will be changed on a Monday and a Thursday.

St Luke and St John books will be changed on a Tuesday and a Friday.

Each child will also receive a sound book and handwriting sheets to practice their sounds and letter formation. They have red tricky words which are words that cannot be sounded out and must be learnt by sight. They handed out gradually by sets:

Set 1: the to I no go into

Set 2: he she we me be

Set 3: you they all

Set 4: are my her

Set 5: said have like

Set 6: so do some

Set 7: come were there

Set 8: little one when

Set 9: out what

Set 10: oh their people Mr Mrs

Children will also receive green decodable words that they can read by sounding out and blending. These words are handed out gradually by sets:

Set 1: a at as an

Set 2: if is in it

Set 3: of off on can

Set 4: dad had back and

Set 5: get big him his

Set 6: not got mum but up

Set 7: will that this

Set 8: then them with