Reading and Phonics
Please, please remember the importance of having a regular time to snuggle and share stories, read your child's reading book with them and revisit the sounds for their phonics book. This time at home with you really does make a significant impact on their progress. In addition to the children’s reading books, we will also be sending home words for the children to learn to read by sight. You will be able to find more information on our phonics page

Literacy Focus

We will be enjoying ...

'Drawing Club'  - Where we will be introducing the children to exciting new stories (using picture books, traditional tales and animations from the past) and vocabulary, encouraging their love for language, maths and mark making/writing as they consider the characters, settings and adventures from the story. There is always an exciting, and quite often funny, 'code' that happens too!

'Story, Music and Rhyme Time' - Where the children will be introduced to different nursery rhymes, poems and stories. 

'Helicopter Stories' - Where the children will choose to make up their own stories and the teacher acts as scribe. The whole class then becomes involved with the 'author' to act out the story together!

'Chatterbox' Reading Books

Each half term we will choose books to focus on reading and enjoying with the children. These books are listed by term below.

By focusing on a collection of books we can allow the children to understand the books in real depth; they will learn new vocabulary, be able to predict what comes next and really engage in the story giving them confidence in their early reading skills.

Autumn 1 Books

Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate bar Poetry

The Colours of us - Karen Katz

Clumsy Crab - Ruth Galloway

The Best Me - Marvyn Harrison

Little Explorers Dinosaurs

The Dot - Peter Reynolds

Woolly Jumper, The story of wool

We're Going On A Bear Hunt - Michael Rosen

A World For Me And You - Uja Asika

The Colour Monster - Anna Llenas

Autumn Books 2

Chicka Chicka 1.2.3. - Bill Martin

Grandpa's Garden - Stella Fry

I Took The Moon For A Walk - Carolyn Curtis

We All Went On A Safari - Laurie Krebs

Driving My Tractor - Jan Dobbins

The Dress In The Window - Robert Tregoning

What Happened To You - James Catchpole

Traction Man Is Here - Mini Grey

Hats Of Faith - Medeia Cohan

Spring Books

I know how we fight germs - Kate Rowan

Martha maps it out - Leigh Hodgkinson

What the ladybird heard - Julia Donaldson

The book with no pictures - B.J.Novak

Wonderful words that tell a tale - Tom Read Wilson

The littlest Yak - Lu Fraser

Amelia Earheart - Little people Big dreams

Recipe for a story - Ella Burfoot

Dali and the path of dreams - Anna Obiols

The king who banned the dark - Emily Haworth-Booth

Summer Term Books

Books Aren't For Eating - Carlie Sorosiak

New Baby - Sarah Shaffi

Amy gets Eaten - Adam Kay

Salvador Dali - Little people, BIG DREAMS

Pussy Cat, Where Have You Been? - Russell Punter

The New Oxford Treasury Of Children's Dreams

I Know Why I Brush My Teeth - Kate Rowan

One Is A Snail Ten Is A Crab - April Pulley Sayre

I Love Me - Marvyn Harrison

Alien Even And Alien Odd - Kathleen Stone

Nursery Rhymes

We will be sharing lots of nursery rhymes with the children throughout the year. below we have listed some of them. Please share and enjoy these together!

• One, Two, Buckles My Shoe
• Jack and Jill
• Five Little Men In A Flying Saucer
• Miss Polly Had a Dolly 
• Little Miss Muffet
• Incy Wincy Spider
• Humpy Dumpty
• Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
• Old MacDonald
• There Was An Old Lady
• Pat-A-Cake
• Three Blind Mice