English

Literacy at Sholing Juniors

Overall Aims.

• To teach children how to become effective communicators using both verbal and written skills.
• To develop confidence in communication skills and to teach the skills necessary to achieve clarity in speech and writing.
• To encourage pupils to listen, read a write with careful thought taken over the purpose, audience and composition.
• To provide a rich and varied experience of the English language, including the history behind its development and modern use.
• To give the opportunity to appreciate literacy in its many forms, and be inspired by it to learn the skills necessary to imitate and innovate it, whatever the genre.
• To develop enthusiastic and reflective readers through challenging and inspiring texts.
• To develop confident and accurate readers.
• To develop the enjoyment of writing and be given the opportunity to write creatively.
• To encourage children’s ability to be thoughtful and purposeful in the planning, drafting and editing of their work.
• To ensure progress for all children is rapid.

In Writing our aims are to:

• To create an enjoyment and stamina for writing.
• To be exposed to a range of quality texts, authors and genres of writing.
• To create thoughtful writers who are able to edit and improve their writing independently and accurately.
• For children to be able to write for a range of purposes with confidence.
• For children to recognise and use grammatical features accurately.
• For children to be able to recognise the links between reading and writing.

In Reading our aims are to:

• develop a knowledge and appreciation of reading;

• read with fluency, intonation and regard to the punctuation
• have a chance to share their enjoyment of the text through discussion;
• have children independently choosing more challenging texts to read.
• use appropriate strategies when reading new or less familiar words

• gain an appreciation of how authors use words and images to achieve different effects.
• to use appropriate reading strategies and reference skills to find specific information.