At Cardrew Court school we place a high priority on reading.

Reading for pleasure, reading cross curriculum content, reading support and intervention.

You will see from our Reading Curriculum overview we have planned access to a variety of texts through the class novel, focus text, non-fiction and additional texts for each year group across each half-term. 

Our Reading curriculum offer and open-access school library are literature rich with carefully planned texts to engage every learner and enhance core reading and literacy skills.

Please see some visual clips of the curriculum overview;

Phonics

From January 2025 (Having baselined all pupils Term 1 since opening the school in September 2024) we will be offering Phonics interventions via RWI in addition to our current curriculum offer in Reading, Writing & Literacy.

At Cardrew Court School we teach early reading using synthetic phonics as the main approach. Pupils are systematically taught the phonemes (sounds), how to blend sounds for reading and how to segment the sounds in order to write words. They are taught to use their phonic skills and knowledge as their first approach to reading alongside high frequency words which don’t completely follow phonic rules.

We use the Read Write Inc phonics programme which has been developed by Ruth Miskin and is taught in over 5,000 schools in the UK.  This programme teaches all of the the common sounds in the English language. The children learn to recognise the sounds and then blend them into words for reading. 

We use Fresh Start for those pupils who need support phonics teaching with interest at a higher level than Read Write Inc.

Once children have completed the Read Write Inc or Fresh Start they review their phonic knowledge as part of the RWInc spelling programme and the ‘dot and dash’ activities.

We deliver this programme alongside our Reading Curriculum to further instil and embed Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency & Reading for Pleasure.