Welcome to English

At Ark Globe, we are dedicated to ensuring all children are passionate about reading and writing. We map out immersive learning journeys for students that are underpinned by a high-quality key text/s. Learning journeys are carefully planned out to ensure multiple opportunities for students to develop a love for learning, passion for discovery and a confidence to explore their imagination. We are determined that all children will become highly competent readers and writers and academically prepared for life beyond primary school and throughout their educational journey. The curriculum is mapped out to ensure a range of coverage of purpose focussed writing and genres thus developing children to be able to effectively speak and write fluently so that they can communicate their ideas and emotions to others, and through their reading and listening, others can communicate with them.

Writing

Throughout the curriculum, children are taught to write clearly, accurately and coherently, adapting their language and style in and for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences. 

The teaching of writing develops students’ competence in the two dimensions of:

• transcription (spelling and handwriting)
• composition (articulating ideas and structuring them in speech and writing).

Writing down ideas fluently depends on effective transcription: that is, on spelling quickly and accurately through knowing the relationship between sounds and letters (phonics) and understanding the morphology (word structure) and orthography (spelling structure) of words. Writing also depends on fluent, legible and, eventually, speedy handwriting. 
Effective composition involves forming, articulating and communicating ideas, and then organising them coherently for a reader. This requires clarity, awareness of the audience, purpose and context, and an increasingly wide knowledge of vocabulary and grammar. 
Writing lessons are connected to reading sessions and based upon core texts. As books are linked to the humanities, students learn factual knowledge alongside the text and acquire a bank of factual information to write about. 

Teaching enables children to imitate the language they need for a particular topic orally, before reading and analysing it, and then writing their own version. Children internalise the language structures needed to write through ‘talking the text’ as well as close reading. The approach moves from dependence towards independence with the teacher using shared and guided teaching to develop the ability in children to write creatively and powerfully. The movement from imitation to innovation to independent application is adapted to suit the needs of learners of any stage.

Grammar

Grammar is embedded within writing sessions to make students aware of key grammatical principles and their effects, to increase the range of choices open to them when they write. The curriculum draws attention to the grammar of writing in an embedded and purposeful way, at relevant points in the learning. In this way, young writers are introduced to ‘a repertoire of infinite possibilities’, explicitly showing them how different ways of shaping sentences or texts, and how different choices of words, can generate different possibilities for meaning making.

Reading

Our reading curriculum has been designed and is taught so that all students are exposed to a staircase of increasingly complex, rich and challenging texts; there is no ceiling on what struggling readers can achieve.

All students develop their fluency, reading age appropriate texts (that they can understand 98% of independently). However, if we restrict texts to only those that students will understand, we deny them the opportunity to learn new words and move up the staircase of complexity. 
Our reading curriculum will not place a ceiling on what lower attaining readers can achieve; it exists to provide access to challenging texts for all, narrowing the gap between the advantaged and the disadvantaged.

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