Phonics and Reading
Phonics
At Beechwood, children learn to read and write through phonics. All of our pupils in Nursery, Reception and Year 1 have a daily "Letters and Sounds" lesson. The children are grouped according to their learning needs and sessions are planned to meet these needs. 'Jolly Phonics' songs and actions are used to learn new phonemes and we teach handwriting outside of the phonics session.
If you would like to learn more about how we teach phonics, please speak to your class teacher who will be happy to share some more information with you.
We use some of these websites with the children. Why not take a look and play along at home?
Pupils in Years 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 investigate spelling patterns and rules in addition to their daily English lessons.
Reading
We use a variety of published reading schemes to support the teaching of reading at Beechwood, including Oxford Reading Tree, PM, Collins and Rigby. This allows each child to experience a variety of reading books on their journey to developing a love of reading. Children are encouraged to change their own reading books from a given selection to foster a love of reading and to develop their own tastes in books and genres.