Whole School Reading and Literacy Strategy

Created: September 2022
Reviewed: September 2023
To be Reviewed September 2024

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Contents:

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What is the difference between Reading and Literacy?

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1. Aims of the Snowfields Literacy Strategy

2. Literacy in English
- Literacy Interventions
- Reading Interventions
- Intervention Waves

3. Literacy across the School
- Student Vocabulary
- Live Marking
- Reading across the Curriculum
- Writing skills across the Curriculum

4. Literacy for Life
- Reading for Pleasure
- Accelerated Reader
- Our Library
- Careers Guidance
- Skills for life

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Reading -
The ability to read a multitude of texts fluently and accurately through the use of alphabetic codes, phonological awareness and word recognition skills.

Reading Culture -
A reading culture is an environment where reading is championed, valued, respected, and encouraged. Reading lies at the heart of the curriculum, and it's of the upmost importance to a child's personal, social, and academic success, as well as their general wellbeing.

Literacy -
Literacy is the ability to read, write, speak and listen in a way that lets us communicate effectively and make sense of the world.

Being able to interpret and understand information in order to live a successful life - this includes academic literacy and comprehension.

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What is the difference between Reading and Literacy?

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Reading -
The ability to read a multitude of texts fluently and accurately through the use of alphabetic codes, phonological awareness and word recognition skills.

Reading Culture -
A reading culture is an environment where reading is championed, valued, respected, and encouraged. Reading lies at the heart of the curriculum, and it's of the upmost importance to a child's personal, social, and academic success, as well as their general wellbeing.

Literacy -
Literacy is the ability to read, write, speak and listen in a way that lets us communicate effectively and make sense of the world.

Being able to interpret and understand information in order to live a successful life - this includes academic literacy and comprehension.

What is the Snowfields Reading and Literacy Strategy?

Snowfields' aim is to prepare students leave us with all of the necessary knowledge, skills and attributes to successfully transition to their next stages of learning and life. 

Currently The Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows “just 22% of autistic adults are in any kind of employment.” (www.autism.org.uk).

We aim to challenge this figure by supporting all of our students to leave Snowfields with all of the necessary skills, knowledge and attributes to successfully contribute to society.

Students should be able to fluently read and understand the texts they need to access in their everyday lives.

As such the Snowfields Literacy Strategy is defined by three core strands:
Literacy in English
Literacy across the Whole School
Literacy for Life

Our aim is to equip students with the highest possible literacy and oracy to successfully live happy and productive lives.

This book gives an overview of the resources and strategies we use to promote reading and literacy amongst our pupils.

As such the Snowfields Literacy Strategy is defined by three core strands:
Literacy in English
Literacy across the Whole School
Literacy for Life

Our aim is to equip students with the highest possible literacy and oracy to successfully live happy and productive lives.

This book gives an overview of the resources and strategies we use to promote reading and literacy amongst our pupils.

Aims of the Snowfields Literacy Strategy:

To promote the importance of Literacy across the whole curriculum, not just in English.

To increase student confidence in vocabulary and learning.

To develop reading skills and opportunities to read across the curriculum.

To build a reading culture around the school.

To develop writing skills across the curriculum.

To provide targeted support and intervention.

Provide consistency in marking across the curriculum.

Aims of the Snowfields Literacy Strategy:

To promote the importance of Literacy across the whole curriculum, not just in English.

To increase student confidence in vocabulary and learning.

To develop reading skills and opportunities to read across the curriculum.

To build a reading culture around the school.

To develop writing skills across the curriculum.

To provide targeted support and intervention.

Provide consistency in marking across the curriculum.

Literacy within English:

Literacy always been at the heart of the study of English. Our curriculum has been designed to promote the four key areas of literacy:

- Reading
- Writing
- Speaking
- Listening

In order to build fluency in all these areas, students study 4 hours of English within the school week. 1 hour of which has specifically been set aside for interventions focusing on literacy skills. These interventions are divided into four waves which focus on reading and literacy.

Literacy Interventions:

Reading for Meaning/Understanding
Comprehension
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG)
Touch Typing
Creative Writing
Speaking and Listening
Debate

Reading Interventions:

All students are baseline assessed for their Reading Age, where students require support and intervention to match their Reading Age to their Chronological Age (recommended within 6months below) students have a number of reading interventions available to them:

In class support
Sounds-Write
Toe by Toe
Phonics International