English
INTENT
Reading: For all children to confidently read and understand a variety of text forms – to apply known reading strategies, book talk, preferences and recommendations.
Writing: Children to see themselves as ‘authors’ and confidently select appropriate genre styles. Handwriting should be consistent and aimed to be joined.
Grammar: Children to select the appropriate register and apply this in their writing. Children to show progression in fluency with grammatical vocabulary.
Spelling: Children to select and apply age appropriate spelling strategies.
English long term plan 2023-2024
Phonics
At Croft Primary School we use Monster Phonics to teach phonics to our children. Monster Phonics is a systematic synthetic scheme. It teaches children to read by enabling them to identify the letters and to blend the sounds together from left to right to read the words. Children will be able to use this knowledge to decode new words. It is a fun way to learn phonics since it is multi-sensory. Sounds are categorised into ten colour groups and each group has monster character.
Children at Croft start Monster Phonics in Reception and continue through into key stage 2. We are an Ambassador School for Monster Phonics.