During Reception children will do the following to develop their early reading skills:
- Enter a classroom which has a variety of books and labels to encourage children to begin to read
- Listen to stories on a tape and use the pictures to follow the story
- Read books which are of various genres
- Learn to read their own name by finding their peg, self-registration and finding their file to put work in
- Choose a book when the child enters the classroom prior to registration
- Weekly Library time, when children take a book home
- Learn the Oxford Reading Tree characters and begin storytelling from non-worded books
- Develop reading skills to begin reading worded books
- Learn Phase 2 and 3 from the Letters and Sounds programme
- Being to blend sounds in words to read simple words
- Learn High Frequency words and Action words by sight
- Use the story chair to develop storytelling and story structure
