Phonics and Reading

Reading

At Deeplish Primary Academy, all staff recognise the importance of reading, whether it be reading for pleasure or to enable children to fully access all aspects of the curriculum.

The curriculum offer is driven by high quality texts. See our curriculum page to see what texts we use.

 

Accelerated Reader

At Deeplish, one of the ways we ensure that children read the correct level of book, is through the Accelerated Reader programme. This also encourages the children to read frequently, to develop their love of reading. 

The counter below shows how many books and words the children have read in a month. 

Vocabulary

Phonics

We place a clear emphasis on the teaching of phonics and we base our phonics teaching on the Little Wandle programme. If you would like to read how we organise the teaching of phonics read the document below. 

 If you would like to find out more information about Little Wandle and learn some useful tips and tricks, you can click on the link below which will take you to their parent home page.

Phonics support for parents

Below is key information about how children learn to say pure sounds in phonics:

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 Accessing your child's phonic book

Please see the information below to find out how to access your child's reading book. Children from Reception - Year 4 will be allocated reading books on an the online platform called Collins E-Books below, they will have read this book in school before it is sent home.

Use the link below and enter your login details provided by your child's class teacher.

Collins E-Book login page

Year 2-4 children will be reading books with more challenge to help build up their reading fluency and pace, these are longer chapter books and will be changed every 3 weeks. Reception - Year 1 will be reading phonics books that are much shorter and will be changed weekly.

Your child's teacher will send your child home with their own login to use. Books will be allocated by their teachers on here. The children should be able to ready the majority of this book independently.

Please see the below video that shows you how to use the system at home.