Oak Farm Infant School

Children in Years 1 and 2 are taught following the guidelines in the National Curriculum.

English is developed through guided and shared reading and writing, daily phonic activities (Letters and Sounds programme) and tasks such as retelling stories, book making and games, drama and role play activities, in addition to more formal grammar, punctuation and spelling activities, all of which support the child’s development as an active speaker and listener.

In the school we aim to provide a breadth of reading experience and foster an enjoyment of books.  We use a variety of reading schemes alongside graded fiction and non fiction texts, as well as books from our well stocked library.  Reading is taught through a variety of approaches—mainly based on phonics but also including recognition of familiar high frequency words and whole sentence work.  The reading programme amalgamates a variety of books which have been divided into 13 colour-coded levels of difficulty.  Oxford Reading Tree is the main scheme but children choose from the colour coded band, at their level, alongside it.

The reading progress of all children is carefully monitored by the class teacher and additional support is given to any child where necessary.  Reading books are sent home on a daily basis to be shared with parents/carers as part of a child’s homework.  We also encourage children to make use of the local library to develop a breadth of reading experiences.