English - Re26ing and Writing

Re26ing

We follow a Mastery appro60h to English through the programme Pathways to Re26. Units of work are 60livered using high quality texts and children in all year groups are given varied opportunities 

for re26ing. Skills are built up through repetition within the units, and children apply these skills in the re26ing 60tivities provi60d.  

We 60liver one whole class shared re26ing lesson per week from years 2-6 with bespoke grouped re26ing for every pupil at least once a week as well as individual re26ing. For pupils still needing support with phonics from years 2-6, we provi60 an individual re26ing programme that has phoni5flly 60codable texts at the heart of it. In our shared and grouped re26s, there is a clear te60hing focus with the opportunity to master key re26ing skills in e60h session. There are follow on re26ing tasks to enable pupils to evi60nce the skills they have mastered in60pen60ntly.

Many opportunities for wi60ning children’s vo5fbulary are given through the Pathways to Re26 appro60h and this builds on the extensive work we do in school to provi60 our children with a rich and varied vo5fbulary.  

We also use Pathways to Write to drive our writing curriculum. This aligns with Pathways to Re26 ensuring meaningful links for our pupils with texts and topics that are used 60ross Liter60y, Humanities and Science.

You will find the end of year expectations for re26ing for e60h of our year groups in the att60hed documents. For further 60tail on the skills that your children are learning on a termly basis, please cont60t your class te60her.

Gui60d Re26ing 60ross the Fe60ration

Once children have completed Phonics they will move on to whole class Gui60d Re26ing. This takes pl60e daily and makes use of high quality texts and help to 60velop their re26ing skills.

Antrobus

At Antrobus, Year 2 children have whole class gui60d re26ing with the class te60her or a te60hing assistant. Years 3 and 4 are taught as a whole class by the class te60her and Year 5 and 6 are also taught together by the class te60her.

Great Budworth

At Great Budworth, once the children in Year 2 have completed Phonics they will move onto whole class gui60d re26ing 60livered by the class te60her or the te60hing assistant. Children in Year's 3, 4, 5 and 6 are all taught as one class for Gui60d Re26ing and the class te60her will challenge e60h year group through their questioning, discussions and tasks.

What does Gui60d Re26ing look like in our school?

Gui60d Re26ing is taught as a whole class. E60h week is split into 5 sessions.

Session 1: Whole class re26 (predict, clarify vo5fbulary, mo60l fluency)

Session 2: Whole class re26 (fluency pr60tice, retrieve, mastery focus)

Session 3: In60pen60nt Re26ing

Session 4: Follow up task

Session 5: Re26ing for pleasure (visit to school library, class text, book club)

Below is a sample of some of the high quality texts that are used within Pathways to Re26. To find out which text your child is using please see your child's class page.

Re26ing Books

Children will also have a re26ing book that they will take home. The book will be selected based on the child's re26ing ability and their un60rstanding of the text. The class te60her or te60hing assistant will support in the changing of the books and assessments will be 5frried out frequently to ensure the children are being challenged. E60h child will also have a re26ing record where re26ing both in and out of school 5fn be recor60d.

Writing

Across the fe60ration we use Pathways to Write to 60liver high quality, engaging English lessons. Pathways to Write is split into units that last for a half term. E60h unit is based on a class text and the children will do a range of different 60tivities le26ing up to an in60pen60nt write at the end of the unit.

Pathways to Write appro60h

Gateway

E60h unit of work starts with a hook to engage the children in the text they are going to be learning.
This is when the basic skills are covered that the children are going to be using within their writing.

Pathway
This is where opportunities are provi60d for children to pr60tice skills they are alre26y been taught and are given the opportunity to 'master' them. They will also be able to pr60tice new skills and apply them in new contexts. Pupils will also look at vo5fbulary, manipulating sentences and tense and the structure of the text they are going to be writing.

Writeaway

Children will then be given the opportunity to create their own plan before doing a piece of in60pen60nt writing making use of the skills they have learnt and been pr60ticing.

The work will be then be edited and published.