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.
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.
In KS2, the programme is delivered through whole class shared reading lessons. In Y2, children participate in one whole class lesson followed by bespoke grouped reading at least once a week as well as individual reading. This begins once children have the prerequisite reading fluency, gained through our phonics programme. In our whole class reading, there is a clear teaching focus with the opportunity to master key reading skills in each session. There are follow on reading tasks to enable pupils to evidence the skills they have mastered independently.
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.
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
We use a phonics-led approach to develop mastery of spelling across all year groups. This provides children with reliable strategies that they can use from as soon as they start school. Although phonics-led, it also combines the other key aspects of being a successful speller: orthography, morphology and etymology to give children a bank of tools they can draw from. Some spelling patterns are also taught through Pathways to Write.
