Literacy
At St. Bernadette’s, our intention is to provide an English Curriculum that allows children to acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, understanding and enthusiasm to become lifelong learners. We believe reading, writing and speaking and listening are vital skills which will support the children across the whole curriculum and beyond.
Reading, writing and speaking and listening come hand in hand. The development of one relies on the development of the other. As such, strategies for reading, writing, speaking and listening form an integral part of our planning and teaching across the curriculum.
Our aims:
Speaking and Listening:
We hope that our children will:
- be able to speak confidently to different audiences using appropriate language;
- listen attentively to others and respond appropriately;
- use spoken language to explore their own experiences and imaginary worlds.
Reading:
We hope that our children will:
- become enthusiastic about books and develop a love of reading;
- read a wide range of texts and genres with confidence and independence whilst developing opinions about what and who they enjoy reading;
- read with understanding and enjoyment;
- be able to analyse meanings and share their opinions of various texts.
Writing:
We hope that our children will:
- enjoy writing and see the value of it;
- be able to communicate meaning, thoughts and feelings through their written work;
- be able to write for different purposes and audiences;
- be able to reflect, criticise and amend their own written work;
- be able to draw on their own real life experiences as well as their experiences from the books they have read, and the experiences of other people, in their writing.
In order to learn more about our Literacy curriculum, please see the attached Literacy booklet.
In this booklet, you will find information on:
- Our aims for the Literacy curriculum
- Oracy & DEAL
- VIPERS
- Our Reading Diet
- Our writing curriculum
- Meeting the needs of SEND learners
- Early Reading & Phonics
- Assessment and Feedback
- Reading at Home and Parental Involvement
- Reading for Pleasure & Enrichment
