📖 Summer 1 – Literacy Overview (Class 1/2D)

✍️ What We’re Learning

This half term, we will be developing our reading and writing skills through a range of exciting texts and activities.

• Reading

  • Listening to and discussing a variety of stories

  • Developing understanding of characters, settings and events

  • Practising phonics and improving reading fluency

• Writing

  • Writing simple sentences with capital letters and full stops

  • Using adjectives to add detail

  • Beginning to join ideas using words like and, because

• Story Work

  • Retelling familiar stories

  • Creating our own short stories

  • Exploring different types of texts (stories, instructions, descriptions)

• Spelling and Phonics

  • Practising common exception words

  • Applying phonics knowledge in reading and writing

🧠 Skills We’re Developing

Through our literacy lessons, children will be developing:

• Reading fluency – reading more smoothly and confidently

• Comprehension – understanding and talking about what they have read

• Writing skills – forming clear sentences and organising ideas

• Spelling and phonics – applying sounds to read and write words

• Vocabulary – learning and using new and exciting words

• Confidence – sharing ideas through speaking and writing

🏡 How You Can Support at Home

You can support your child’s literacy learning in lots of simple ways:

• 📚 Read regularly with your child and talk about the story

• 🔤 Practise phonics sounds and blending words together

• ✏️ Encourage writing – shopping lists, stories or simple sentences

• 💬 Talk together – ask questions and encourage full answers

• 📝 Practise spellings little and often

• 🎭 Retell stories or act them out to build understanding

We’re looking forward to developing a love of reading and writing this term! 🌟