English Schemes of Work
Reading
For Early Reading, please see the Phonics page.
At Moulton School, reading is at the heart of everything we do. Staff and children celebrate their passion of this area and our curriculum aims to equip children with the skills needed to be lifelong readers.
Children initially learn to read using RWI which continues through to Year 3 to ensure that children have mastered phonetic decoding and given plenty of opportunities to develop reading fluency at a decodable level.
Once this is achieved, we follow a Mastery approach to English through the programme Pathways to Read. Units of work are delivered using high quality texts and children in all year groups are given varied opportunities for reading. Skills are built up through repetition within the units and children apply these skills in the reading activities provided.
Many opportunities for widening children’s vocabulary are given through the Pathways to Read approach and this builds on the extensive work we do in school to provide our children with a rich and varied vocabulary.
Developing a real love of reading is at the heart of everything we do at Moulton, which is clear from our beautiful school library filled with a range of texts and looked after by pupil librarians who receive training from the Education Library Service.
End of year expectations for reading for each of our year groups
Writing
We follow a Mastery approach to English through the programme Pathways to Write. Units of work are delivered using high quality texts and children in all year groups are given varied opportunities for reading. Skills are built up through repetition within the units and children apply these skills in the reading activities provided. This aligns with Pathways to Read ensuring meaningful links for our pupils.
Progression in Mastery Skills throughout the school
Spelling
At Moulton, our spelling lessons aim to give children the opportunity to really investigate the rich and historical ways words are built in the English language. By building on phonics knowledge, children develop an understanding of morphology and etymology which empowers them to understand why words are s in the way they are and enables them to build strategies to help them effectively encode.
