Aims

Our hub focuses on three crucial priority areas:

Quality phonics provision

Ensuring best practice in systematic synthetic phonics teaching within school. This includes:

• Encouraging fidelity to a single systematic synthetic phonics programme
• Supporting effective use of decodable books in the early stages of learning to read to establish phonic decoding
• Supporting effective practice in formative assessment in relation to phonics/early reading

Language and oracy

Providing evidence-based approaches to early language development and supporting schools to close the word gap, developing an oracy approach across school.

Promoting a love of reading

Supporting schools to build a robust pedagogy that encourages children to read for pleasure, this includes:

• Developing social reading environments
• Reading to children for enjoyment
• Effective independent reading
• Supporting informal book talk and reading communities