English
Reading
By the end of Year 6, we want children at Oughtibridge Primary school to be able to understand the concepts below and to be able to answer these key questions about them.
Decoding – How can we apply our knowledge of phonics to sound out unfamiliar words?
Meaning – What does a word mean and how does it affect a sentence or text as a whole?
Retrieval – How can we find information or key details from a text?
Comprehension – How can we understand, interpret and process what we have read in order to form conclusions?
Summarising – How can we identify the most important parts of the text and recall the main points and ideas?
Inference – How can we use the information we already know and clues within the text to help us understand the meaning of the text as a whole?
Predicting – How can we connect our existing knowledge to make informed predictions based around the text we have read?
Language – How is the meaning of a text enhanced through the choice of words and phrases?
Comparing – How can we make comparisons within a text and use our existing knowledge of texts to compare them with other texts?
Writing
By the end of Year 6, we want children at Oughtibridge Primary school to be able to understand the concepts below and to be able to answer these key questions about them.
Purpose – What is the reason for producing a particular piece of writing?
Audience – Who will be reading the piece of writing and how should we change our writing style to communicate with them effectively?
Genres – What style of writing do we want to produce?
Punctuation and grammar – How will our chosen punctuation and grammar improve our writing as a whole?
Spelling – How can we use strategies we already know to help us to spell a word correctly?
Vocabulary and Word choice – How can we select the most appropriate words and phrases to include in our writing and how does our choice of words affect our writing overall?
Presentation – How can we modify our handwriting and layout of our work to make sure our writing is clear and suits the purpose?
These skills are developed across the curriculum through the teaching of reading, writing, speaking and listening. Oracy (the ability to express oneself fluently and grammatically in speech) is at the heart of our overall curricular approach, and so English is in many ways at the heart of our curriculum.
English is an integral part of the curriculum within Oughtibridge. We use a Mastery approach to embed reading, writing and speaking and listening skills into everything we do to ensure our children are confident, articulate and fluent in every area of Literacy and beyond. With these skills, children are encouraged to discuss, question and discover the world and subjects around them.
We use the Read, Write Inc. scheme of work for teaching phonics and Early Reading.
Would you like to know more about English at Oughtibridge Primary School?
You can find out more about how we teach Reading and how you can support this at home by viewing our Individual Reading Document for Parents.
You can find out more about how we teach English by reading our English Policy Updated April 24
If you would like to see the topics we cover in English, please download our English Long Term Plan.
You can find out more about the specific way provision in Foundation Stage 2 links into the subject by reading about objectives that children access in Spoken Language in the Foundation Stage, Reading in the Foundation Stage and Writing in the Foundation Stage.
You may also wish to find out more about how children make progress across the school by reading our Phonics Progression Grid, Reading Progression Grid and Writing Progression Grid which explain the knowledge and skills we expect a typical child to demonstrate at the end of each year.