Literacy statement of intent
To deliver an exciting, innovative Literacy curriculum which enables and empowers children's written and oral communication and creativity.
Children who read for pleasure gain a richer vocabulary, more knowledge, and critical thinking skills and become independent learners. Children work in focused partners and groups to develop their reading skills and their understanding of texts. We provide children with rich reading experiences within the English lessons and encourage them to appreciate the author’s use of language and writing techniques in order to develop their own writing skills. Our children take their reading books home daily to share with their families. As they progress through the school, they are given more responsibility for making their own reading choices from the excellent resources we have in school.
St Monica’s takes part in the Hackney Education initiative, Destination Reader. This is a wonderful scheme which really focuses on the skills of reading. The children unpick the schemes main strategies which include, Predicting, Questioning, Clarifying, Inferring, Summarising, Making Links and Evaluating. This is done through a variety of different genres and texts.
To deliver an exciting, innovative Literacy curriculum which enables and empowers children's written and oral communication and creativity.
Children who read for pleasure gain a richer vocabulary, more knowledge, and critical thinking skills and become independent learners. Children work in focused partners and groups to develop their reading skills and their understanding of texts. We provide children with rich reading experiences within the English lessons and encourage them to appreciate the author’s use of language and writing techniques in order to develop their own writing skills. Our children take their reading books home daily to share with their families. As they progress through the school, they are given more responsibility for making their own reading choices from the excellent resources we have in school.
St Monica’s takes part in the Hackney Education initiative, Destination Reader. This is a wonderful scheme which really focuses on the skills of reading. The children unpick the schemes main strategies which include, Predicting, Questioning, Clarifying, Inferring, Summarising, Making Links and Evaluating. This is done through a variety of different genres and texts.