Reading at St Stephen's

Our Intent

At St Stephen’s, we recognise that reading plays an important part of life and education. We therefore aim to enthuse children as readers by providing a rich and diverse reading curriculum. By doing so, it is our intent to create and foster confident, competent, independent readers who can fully access an equally diverse and varied curriculum.

The Reading Programmes used to develop our readers:

EYFS                        Talking about texts/ sharing texts /bringing texts alive

                                  Oxford Reading Tree Reading Scheme

                                  Phonics Programme: Letters and Sounds

KS1/ Year 1           Daily Supported Reading Programme

                                  Phonics Programme: Letters and Sounds

KS1/ Year 2:         Guided Reading Approach

                                  Destination Reader Programme (reduced)

                                  Phonics Programme: Letters and Sounds

KS2:                          Destination Reader Programme

All:                            Levelled Home Readers