Page 15 - Teaching and Learning Policy 2026

English - Reading
Reading at Green Gates is exciting and
inspiring. We create a love of reading with a
variety of techniques. Our children see
reading as an enjoyable activity and a
transferrable skill. We want children to
understand that reading skills can help
them to access a range of texts and
information from different viewpoints and
cultures.
Intent
As a school, we aim to:
Encourage all pupils to read widely across
both fiction and non-fiction to develop their
knowledge of themselves and the world in
which they live;
Establish an appreciation and love of
reading;
Gain knowledge across the curriculum and
develop their comprehension skills.
Ensure that, by the end of their primary
education, all pupils are able to read
fluently, and with confidence, in any subject
in their forthcoming secondary education.
Implementation - EYFS / Key Stage One
Implementation - EYFS
Reading is essential in a child’s all round
development and for enabling them to be successful
in later life. Through a progressive, systematic and
multi sensory approach, children will develop the
necessary skills and fluency to be successful
readers. Children need to develop their speaking
and listening skills, vocabulary development and the
process of word recognition to enable them to
become confident readers. In EYFS, they will be
exposed to a language rich environment and will
share stories, songs and rhymes to enable them to
develop a love of reading and build a bank of
vocabulary which can be built on in later school.
At Green Gates, we teach reading through the
Read Write Inc. approach, alongside interactive
activities, to develop confident, resilient readers. The
programme begins in Reception and pupils continue
until they have completed all of the units.
Read Write Inc (RWI) is a consistent, rigorous and
dynamic literacy programme to teach EVERY child
to read by the age of six. Using synthetic phonics,
children quickly learn to blend letter sounds
together following a fun and effective programme.
All staff at Green Gates are highly skilled and
phonics is delivered daily in small groups.