English Overviews

Pathways to Write

We follow a Mastery approach to writing through the programme ‘Pathways to Write.’ Units of work are delivered using high quality texts and children in each year group are given varied opportunities for writing. Skills are built up through repetition within the units, and children apply these skills in the writing activities provided.  Many opportunities for widening children’s vocabulary are given through the Pathways to Write approach and this builds on the extensive work we do in school to provide our children with a rich and varied vocabulary.

Pathways to Read

We follow a Mastery approach to reading through the programme ‘Pathways to Read’ from Year 2 to Year 6. Units of work are delivered using high quality texts and children in all year groups are given varied opportunities for reading. Skills are built up through repetition within the units, and children apply these skills in the reading activities provided.

The programme is delivered through whole class shared reading lessons. For pupils still needing support with phonics from years 2-6, we offer the Read Write Inc. programme that has phonically decodable texts at the heart of it. In our whole class reading, there is a clear teaching focus with the opportunity to master key reading skills in each session. There are follow on reading tasks to enable pupils to evidence the skills they have mastered independently.

Many opportunities for widening children’s vocabulary are given through the Pathways to Read approach and this builds on the extensive work we do in school to provide our children with a rich and varied vocabulary. Children will practise reading aloud regularly with support from the teacher to build their reading fluency.

You will find the end of year expectations for writing, reading and spoken language for each of our year groups in the attached documents.