Reading

Each child will have a reading book and some key sounds/tricky words to practise every week.  The day for the book to be returned will be written on the front of the reading record. It is fundamental to children’s reading development that we are able to listen to the children read their home-school reading book each week on their allocated day and have their reading record so that we are able to give them key words to practice. This should be returned every week on their given reading day. Children need to be reading at home regularly to practise phonics and reading strategies to develop fluency and confidence.

At Pentre'r Graig, we have introduced Monster Phonics. The programme starts in Nursery with pre-phonics, listening for environmental sounds, rhymes and songs; and develops into phoneme/grapheme recognition as the children progress, both single letter sounds and digraphs (multiple letter sounds such as 'ch', 'sh' and 'ng'. These Monster Phonics sessions take place daily for 20-30 minutes. 

Monster Phonics is a structured phonics program designed for primary education in Wales, aimed at teaching children to read and write effectively. It is aligned with the Curriculum for Wales and covers progression steps from Nursery to Year 2. The program utilizes color-coding to help children remember graphemes and phonemes, making learning engaging and effective. It is based on systematic synthetic phonics principles, focusing on developing phonemic awareness and fluency in reading.