Phonics and Early Reading

At Downham C of E Primary School we have adopted Read Write Inc as our programme to teach phonics and early reading to our children. 

Teaching our children to read and write accurately, fluently and confidently is the most important thing we will do.

Ofsted’s greatest focus, as well as ours here at school, is upon the teaching of reading: Read Write Inc. is the Phonics and Literacy programme that we use across the school to maximise reading results.

Read Write Inc. programmes combine into a complete literacy programme which we run from the moment new pupils arrive in school. These programmes are designed to stimulate and challenge children’s thinking and create enthusiastic, life-long readers and writers in them all.

At Downham C of E Primary School we recognise that children who read a lot are successful at school. Reading enriches their vocabulary, their grammar, their writing and their spelling.

Importantly, if they read and write fluently, they can draw ideas together – a key skill for effective learning at any age. Teaching children to read – and keeping them reading – are the two things that will make the biggest difference to their future.

The five key principles of the Read Write Inc. programme are:

Participation, Praise, Pace, Purpose and Passion

To help at home:

Your child will start to bring books home when they are confident readers, relating to their reading stage. You will find they will bring home a phonics based book, this will aid application, speed and fluency- developing speedy reading!  Following on from this, they will bring a comprehension based book which will begin to enrich their reading, which will require decoding skills.  Only then, children will bring home enriched reading books which will enhance their understanding via inspirational language promoting depth to their understanding.

To visit the Read Write Inc. website please click here.

The following link provides lots of free Read Write Inc. Phonics resources to help your child, including eBooks, practice sheets and parent films. Please see the Read Write Inc website for how to support your child.