EYFS Reading Progression: 2021/2022 Term
Reading cycle
Methods
Outcomes
Prior to RWI being introduced
Phase 1 Phonics
Daily sound awareness lessons
(continuing throughout RWI)
Concepts of print introduced
Children are able to tune into speech sounds and are beginning to segment and blend sounds into words.
Autumn 1
RWI Phonics Set 1 sounds
Children taking home Pink books and using ActiveLearn once a week (both to be checked and completed at school if not done at home)
Guided Reading
Guided reading groups reading Pink Books. RWI Set 1 sounds
Autumn 2
RWI Phonics: Ditties/Red Guided Reading
Children taking home Red books and ActiveLearn. Weekly Guided reading Red/Yellow RWI Set 1 sounds confident and fluent. RWI Ditties/Red books being taught
Children recognise and recall most Set 1 sounds. Children able to hear, recognise and say the initial sounds in words. Children beginning to segment and blend independently. ELG+: Children reading Ditties Children on Red books Children recognise and recall all Set 1 sounds Children confident with segmenting and blending, starting to read consonant clusters. Red words being recognised, especially: I, the ELG+: Children reading Green books in RWI; Set 2 sounds beginning.
Spring 1
RWI Phonics: Green
RWI Red book sessions to Children able to read CVC include retrieval ‘fastest and words with consonant clusters with more ease