The Reading Curriculum at Lindley CE Infant School
Reading and Phonics Curriculum Intent
At Lindley CE Infant School, our Reading and Phonics Curriculum is designed to help every child grow, learn, and shine as they develop into fluent, confident, and knowledgeable readers. Guided by our values of Respect, Friendship, and Trust, we provide a high-quality reading and phonics education that inspires children to become the best they can be.
At Lindley CE Infant School, we follow the Twinkl Phonics scheme, which is a fully comprehensive, synthetic phonics teaching programme designed to be used with children from Nursery to Year 2, which has been validated by the Department for Education (2021). Delivered through the stories and adventures of Kit, Sam and the Twinkl Phonics family, the scheme builds and develops the skills and understanding children need to become effective, independent readers and writers.
We use Rhino Readers to support delivery of our Phonics programme. We also use additional decodable books matched to the Rhino Readers and align with our Twinkl Phonics teaching.
From Year 2 onwards, whole class reading sessions follow FREDs Teaching. This structured approach develops vocabulary, fluency and comprehension using engaging, age-appropriate texts. Lessons focus on the six domains of reading (Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval, and Sequencing). Teachers explicitly model prosody and comprehension strategies, developing children’s enjoyment and confidence as readers.
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Our 25-26 Reading Ambassadors
Core Stories
Core stories encourage children to be confident to use the language of stories – their rhythm, rhyme and alliteration. They will use vocabulary and forms of speech that are increasingly influenced by their experiences of reading. Children will describe the main story settings, events, main characters in increasing detail.
Core stories are chosen to reflect our Lindley Infant School curriculum drivers - Emotional Well-being, Culture and diversity and Personal Responsibility.
The Book Shed
Our Book Shed is now open, you will find it behind the MUGA on the top playground. The Book Shed is filled with wonderful texts, please help yourself to a book to enjoy together at home. When you have finished reading it, return it, and borrow another! Reading as a family helps to create a love of reading. Additionally, if you have any books at home you would like to donate to our community Book Shed, there is an orange box under the table in the school entrance.
Kirklees Libraries Free Children's Ebooks
Kirklees online libraries are offering a collection of FREE EBOOKS to support homework topics for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 children. These are special simultaneous use copies, which mean you'll never had to wait to borrow a title.