English – Phonics Policy
Bug Club Reading Programme
At Manor Road, we follow ‘Bug Club Phonics from EYFS to Year 2’. Below, you will find key information about the scheme and how you can get involved. We hope that you and your child will love these books and enjoy reading them at home. If you have any questions regarding this reading programme, then please do not hesitate to talk to your child’s class teacher.
What is Bug Club?
Bug Club is a finely-levelled reading scheme, which ensures that all children can find books at exactly the right level for them. Bug Club books have a fantastic range of titles, which are graded into colour-coded book band levels . Within each level, there is a carefully planned progression of books. This fine progression gives children plenty of opportunity to develop their reading skills and master each fine step while moving through the reading programme.
What is the best way to use Bug Club?
Inside every printed book/eBook there are notes to help you make the most of reading with your child.
Inside Front Cover: for younger children, these notes identify difficult words with which children may need help and give ideas and strategies to help you feel confident that you know how best to help. For older children, the notes are intended to deepen each child’s understanding of the book. They provide background information about the time or place the book was written or sometimes information about the author or illustrator.
Inside back cover: these notes suggest puzzles and challenges that help children think about their reading. These include ‘Find it!’ activities that encourage children to revisit the text; ‘Share it!’ tasks that may involve making or writing something; and other tasks that offer ideas for further reading.
How can I get involved?
Parents play a crucial role in supporting their child to become confident, fluent readers who enjoy reading. Until they are fluent readers, younger children will benefit from reading aloud to you as often as possible. We advise listening to your child read on a daily basis for 10-15 minutes. By the time they are in Key Stage 2, many children prefer to read silently to themselves. It’s important to create quiet opportunities for them to do so, but parents should also try to find the opportunity to talk to their child about the book they are reading.
When sharing a book with your child, try to take opportunities to talk about the book – before, during and after reading.
See the phonics policy below for more information:
