Literacy Development
Intent
At Lumley Infant and Nursery School, an emphasis is placed on developing children’s early literacy skills, through the explicit teaching of reading and writing skills. Reading is categorised into two main areas
- comprehension
- word reading.
Within the Early Years Foundation Stage, language comprehension develops through rich opportunities to talk, reading and sharing stories and enjoying nursery rhymes, poems and familiar songs together. When children are developmentally ready, skilled word reading, is taught within our nursery, with the introduction of our phonics programme Read Write Inc. Phonics. This is built upon in Reception where children are taught to decode unfamiliar words using their phonetic knowledge and read familiar word speedily, building up to read simple sentences in well-matched short texts, with confidence.
The development of writing begins in Nursery, where children are encouraged to make marks to represent objects and words. Schemes such as ‘Dough Disco’ and ‘Squiggle While You Wiggle’ are utilised to develop hand strength and pencil grip. Children are also taught how to write their own name. When children are developmentally ready, they will be supported in matching spoken sounds to their letter representation and this is then built upon to write simple words. In Reception, children follow the Read Write Inc. Writing scheme.
Knowledge and Key Skills Progression Grids:
READING – EYFS & KS1 Knowledge and Key Skills – updated September 2022
WRITING – EYFS & KS1 Knowledge and Key Skills Progression Grid – updated Dec 2023
Implementation
Phonics
