Phonics/ Reading
At St Mark's we are now following the Sounds Write phonics programme. This is a systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) programme that we chose from an approved Government list. Mrs Price, Mrs Poole and Ms Kelsey undertook the training in the summer term and Mrs Price and Mrs Poole are now implementing it in their classrooms. Although mostly aimed at Early Years and KS1, we will be rolling it out across the whole school with Miss Button to undertake her training after half term. Teaching assistants are also receiving trainin and it will be used as an intervention for KS2 children as well. It is a thorough and effective scheme that Mrs Price and Mrs Poole are already seeing results from!
For more information and for the presentenation on how Sounds Write works, please follow this link.
St Mark’s Reading Spine
We have created a St. Mark's Reading Spine based on good quality books for staff to read aloud to each class. Some are based on our curriculum projects, others are just wonderful books which will enrich children's love of reading. We will be reading these to the children in school so by the end of their time at St. Mark's, they will have had exposure to lots of different types of books. We will continue to add to this list as more books are published/discovered.
Bluebell
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Books to have read to you before Year 1 |
Suggested Project texts |
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Supertato You Choose The Tiger who came to Tea Dogger Pumpkin Soup We’re going on a Bear Hunt Little Red Riding Hood Goldilocks and the Three Bears The Three Little Pigs The Little Red Hen The Gruffalo Stanley’s Stick Handa’s Surprise Oi Frog
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Knuffle Bunny (Why is it good to be me?) Knuffle Bunny Too (Why is it good to be me?) Knuffle Bunny Free* (Why is it good to be me?) Knock knock* (Why is it good to be me?) Super Duper You (Why is it good to be me?) Funnybones (Why is it good to be me?)
Owl Babies (Why is it good to be me?) So Much (Why is it good to be me?) Dear Father Christmas (why is it good to be me?) The Emperor’s Egg (How can we make the world a better place?) The Great Explorer* (How can we make the world a better place?) Lost and Found (How can we make the world a better place?) Ernest Shackleton – Little People, Big Ideas (How can we make the world a better place?) The Bog Baby* (How can we show kindness to people and places?) |
Fern
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Books to have read to you before KS2 |
Suggested Project texts |
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Beegu Ruby’s worry Not no Bernard The Man on the Moon Chocolate Cake Gorilla Fantastic Mr Fox The Fantastic Book of First Poems Something Else Dave and the Tooth Fairy
Willow Wildthing and the Swamp Monster Once upon a Tune Mr Penguin and the Lost Treasure Flat Stanlely Amazing Grace Grace and Family Emily Brown and the Thing |
Traction Man* (What is play?) The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (What is play?) That Rabbit belongs to Emily Brown (What is play?) Dolphin Boy (Do we value what we’ve got?) The Little Red Hen (Where does our food come from?) The Gigantic Turnip (where does our food come from?) The Storm Whale (Do we value what we’ve got?) The Snail and the whale (Do we value what we’ve got?)
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Bramble
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Books to have read to you before you get to Laurel |
Suggested Project texts |
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The Boy at the Back of the Class Into the Forest The Sheep Pig The Lion the witch and the wardrobe Hansel and Gretel by Anthony Browne The Abominables by Eva Ibbotson
The Firework makers Daughter Why the whales came The Girl who Stole an elephant Charlotte’s Web The Infinate
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The Highwayman* Long walk to Freedom* Journey The Village that Vanished (What is Justice?) Mamma Mita (What is Justice?) Lila and the Secret of Rain (What is Justice?) The Garbage King (What is Justice?) The Lion and the Unicorn (What is worth fighting for?) Rose Blanche (What is worth fighting for?) One Plastic Bag (What is Justice?) Carrie’s War (What is worth fighting for?) Fly Eagle Fly (What is Justice?) The Great Kapok Tree (Rainforest) Wolf Brother (what does it mean to be human?) Stig of the Dump (What does it mean to be human?) |
Laurel
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Books to have read to you before you leave us! |
Suggested Project texts |
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The Iron Woman King Kong – Anthony Browne Tom’s Midnight Garden Pig Heart Boy There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom Farther – Grahame Baker-Smith Varjak Paw
Clockwork Holes The Hobbit Skellig Wonder Noughts and Crosses |
Street Child (What are rights? What are responsibilities?) Odysseus (What is a democracy?) The Iron Man (Is exploration always good?) Kensuke’s Kingdom (What is Friendship?) The Arrival (What does it mean to be free?) Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology (Where do we come from?) Viking Boy (Where do we come from?) Monster Slayer (Where do we come from?) Seasons of Splendor (What is a City?) Greek Myths, Marcia Williams
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