Reading

At St Michael’s, children begin their reading journey with daily Read Write Inc lessons. Through this rigorous phonics programme, children learn to recall sounds and to read these sounds within real words and nonsense words. Alongside this work, children will build on their reading fluency, a skill which supports them as they move into whole class reading lessons. Through our reading lessons in year 2 onwards, the children work on the FIRECUP reading skills in order to develop not only their reading fluency but also their understanding of the text they have read. FIRECUP is the St Michael’s acronym for fluency, inference, retrieval, evaluation, comparison, understanding and prediction. Engaging class texts, alongside unseen comprehensions, are used as our vehicle to teach and develop these reading skills as children move through the school.  

Reading Café

During the week commencing 18th November, each class hosted a Reading Café to introduce children to a variety of new books, exposing them to different genres and authors while promoting reading for pleasure. The children also had the opportunity to discuss the books they read with their peers.

"I liked the reading café' because we read many books." Omo

"I liked the comic books." Yusuf

"I enjoyed the reading and having a snack." Frankie

"I didn't think I would like this book, but now I want to read more about space!" Jacob

"It was so hard to choose my favourite, but I loved trying out all the different stories." Adam

"I liked the different books and genres." Haadi

"The experience was good" George

"I liked reading the blurbs of different books" Emaan

Parents were invited into school to see RWInc lessons in progress. After a parent workshop, led by the RWInc lead, they were able to explore phonics lessons and Write Dance sessions in Reception. 

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