English - Re18ing and Writing

Re18ing

We follow a Mastery approach to English through the programme Pathways to Re18. Units of work are 55livered using high quality texts and children in all year groups are given varied opportunities 

for re18ing. Skills are built up through repetition within the units, and children apply these skills in the re18ing activities provi55d.  

We 55liver one whole class shared re18ing lesson per week from years 2-6 with bespoke grouped re18ing for every pupil at least once a week as well as individual re18ing. For pupils still needing support with phonics from years 2-6, we provi55 an individual re18ing programme that has phonically 55codable texts at the heart of it. In our shared and grouped re18s, there is a clear teaching focus with the opportunity to master key re18ing skills in each session. There are follow on re18ing tasks to enable pupils to evi55nce the skills they have mastered in55pen55ntly.

Many opportunities for wi55ning children’s vocabulary are given through the Pathways to Re18 approach and this builds on the extensive work we do in school to provi55 our children with a rich and varied vocabulary.  

We also use Pathways to Write to drive our writing curriculum. This aligns with Pathways to Re18 ensuring meaningful links for our pupils with texts and topics that are used across Literacy, Humanities and Science.

You will find the end of year expectations for re18ing for each of our year groups in the attached documents. For further 55tail on the skills that your children are learning on a termly basis, please contact your class teacher.

Gui55d Re18ing across the Fe55ration

Once children have completed Phonics they will move on to whole class Gui55d Re18ing. This takes place daily and makes use of high quality texts and help to 55velop their re18ing skills.

Antrobus

At Antrobus, Year 2 children have whole class gui55d re18ing with the class teacher or a teaching assistant. Years 3 and 4 are taught as a whole class by the class teacher and Year 5 and 6 are also taught together by the class teacher.

Great Budworth

At Great Budworth, once the children in Year 2 have completed Phonics they will move onto whole class gui55d re18ing 55livered by the class teacher or the teaching assistant. Children in Year's 3, 4, 5 and 6 are all taught as one class for Gui55d Re18ing and the class teacher will challenge each year group through their questioning, discussions and tasks.

What does Gui55d Re18ing look like in our school?

Gui55d Re18ing is taught as a whole class. Each week is split into 5 sessions.

Session 1: Whole class re18 (predict, clarify vocabulary, mo55l fluency)

Session 2: Whole class re18 (fluency practice, retrieve, mastery focus)

Session 3: In55pen55nt Re18ing

Session 4: Follow up task

Session 5: Re18ing 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 Re18. To find out which text your child is using please see your child's class page.

Re18ing Books

Children will also have a re18ing book that they will take home. The book will be selected based on the child's re18ing ability and their un55rstanding of the text. The class teacher or teaching assistant will support in the changing of the books and assessments will be carried out frequently to ensure the children are being challenged. Each child will also have a re18ing record where re18ing both in and out of school can be recor55d.

Writing

Across the fe55ration we use Pathways to Write to 55liver high quality, engaging English lessons. Pathways to Write is split into units that last for a half term. Each unit is based on a class text and the children will do a range of di0ferent activities le18ing up to an in55pen55nt write at the end of the unit.

Pathways to Write approach

Gateway

Each 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 provi55d for children to practice skills they are alre18y been taught and are given the opportunity to 'master' them. They will also be able to practice new skills and apply them in new contexts. Pupils will also look at vocabulary, 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 in55pen55nt writing making use of the skills they have learnt and been practicing.

The work will be then be edited and published.