Page 58 - EY Teacher's Handbook 2024-2025

Parents of Children in FS2 will be given a link to take home from the Oxford Reading Tree scheme
early in Term 1. Our literacy lessons are based around a theme using a book, story, song, poem or

nursery rhyme. Over a week or more children will foucs on the Essential Questions linked to the Early
Years Foundation Stage by introducing vocabulary using a book/poem or text. Children will discuss

questions built into the topics by thinking and expressing their opinions, drawing, speaking, role
playing, imagining, creating to understand ideas and make comparisons and then work towards

representing their thinking by producing their own piece of writing (FS2) or mark making (FSL-FS1).
We call this a `Reading into Writing Model'. Children will also practise their speaking and listening
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skills as singing, choral reading, chanting and drama activities are included in the units of work.
These skills are reinforced through drama and at Small World Play, by our specialist teacher.

ENTITLEMENT BY YEAR GROUP

FS2: English teachers will focus on building oral language and vocabulary development. FS2
English stage also develops letter and sound recognition, blending and segmenting words and sounds

and writing skills to form alphabet letters and words, simple sentences as well as their first name.
Children will further develop their listening and understanding skills. The teachers will use the

following resources and approaches and integrate the topics to build background knowledge and as
a context of interest to children at this age in “Understanding the World”:

• Letters and Sounds phonics instruction Phase 1 & 2 revision and Phase 3

• Regular Guided reading- minimum once a week

• Writing practice daily – their name, letters and sounds and High Frequency Words (HFW) and

simple sentences using sentence starters (eg. I like), The EPG Curriculum gives suggestions as to

how this can be structured in a centre-based classroom.

• Opportunities for private reading and/or to share books daily
• Precision
Precision teaching every day when assessed as ready for it or in need of it by the class teacher

with a focus on rhyming words, High Frequency Word (HFW) lists and topic vocabulary.

Writing practice and ORT vocabulary to build reading fluency and comprehension
• Oral language activities – songs, chants, rhymes, drama- role playing

• • Reading, writing and speaking using simple sentences starting with “The…” or “I …” or “A…”

• Dedicated Floppy‘s Phonics lessons each week.