Letters & Sounds - a note for parents and guardians
Letters & Sounds is a phonic programme used in school daily. It helps your child to recognise letters, their sounds and builds up various sound combinations to help decode words. We encourage children to read at least 4 times a week at home using their phonic knowledge to build up words, which also helps with spelling. Please see the learning resource links which also includes 'non-words' or 'pseudo words' for your child to sound out. These will be included in the Year 1 phonics screening check, a new government reading test. More information will be given about this in the Spring term from the school. Please remember - children are also expected to understand what they read and what is read to them. This includes questions which talk about what has happenned, could happen next, how a situation has occured, how a character feels and explaining their answer; why and how they know. Children do not always have to read the scheme book from school every day. It could be a book from home they read or, for comprehension questions and understanding, you have read to them.
Accelerated reader
Accelerated Reader provides teachers with an effective way to monitor all forms of guided reading practice and library circulation. Accelerated Reader provides detailed, objective data to target teaching and ensure success for every pupil, regardless of level, from emergent reader onwards!
Get pupils excited about books: Accelerated Reader helps you focus attention on the careful reading of books, which improves pupils' critical thinking skills and builds an intrinsic love of reading
Obtain reliable, objective information: Over 30 reports are available so you can accurately monitor performance and progress towards targets
Individualised Learning: Accelerated Reader helps you individualise teaching for every pupil
Improve classroom management: Teachers using Accelerated Reader report higher attendance, fewer discipline problems, and improved attitudes about school
Keep each pupil challenged: Using Accelerated Reader, you can continuously guide pupils to appropriate books and material that provide the right level of challenge
Three different types of quiz: Reading Practice quizzes test comprehension, Vocabulary quizzes test understanding of regularly used words, and Literacy Skills quizzes test higher order thinking skills.
Get pupils excited about books: Accelerated Reader helps you focus attention on the careful reading of books, which improves pupils' critical thinking skills and builds an intrinsic love of reading
Obtain reliable, objective information: Over 30 reports are available so you can accurately monitor performance and progress towards targets
Individualised Learning: Accelerated Reader helps you individualise teaching for every pupil
Improve classroom management: Teachers using Accelerated Reader report higher attendance, fewer discipline problems, and improved attitudes about school
Keep each pupil challenged: Using Accelerated Reader, you can continuously guide pupils to appropriate books and material that provide the right level of challenge
Three different types of quiz: Reading Practice quizzes test comprehension, Vocabulary quizzes test understanding of regularly used words, and Literacy Skills quizzes test higher order thinking skills.