Readers and Writers

Motivates children towards successful reading and writing from Kindergarten to Primary 2

At preschool and early primary levels, Readers and Writers is based on an outstanding imported reading scheme that takes young children confidently through the initial stages of literacy in the classroom, and also at home. Children take home beautifully-crafted fiction and non-fiction books to keep, as the foundation of a personal library to treasure.

After Primary 1, children are encouraged towards literature of different genres. This extends reading and develops writing for different purposes, complementing success in school work.

• To provide a structured approach to building literacy skills using a quality graded reading scheme with class activities
• To allow children to develop individually in small classes in which they will read with their peers and individually with the teacher
• Development of phonic skills, sight words, vocabulary and use of picture cues
• Mastery of language structure and grammar to support developing literacy skills
• Provision of a wide range of fiction and non-fiction for class and home reading
• Development of lateral and inferential thinking to support comprehension
• To extend children's reading and writing towards developing their own style of creative writing

• K1 and K2: Word attack skills for reading and writing: Sight and high frequency words, language structure and awareness, phonics, vocabulary building, picture cueing, hand-writing and beginning spelling.
• P1 and P2: Comprehension of fiction and non-fiction, sentence structure, punctuation, creative writing and composition.

Children work in groups of 12 to one teacher. Kindergarten 1 and 2 classes are supported by an additional Assistant Teacher

Classes are weekly (except on public holidays), 1.5 hours per session.

Children are grouped according to age and school level. However, more than one reading level will emerge in each class as children develop at their own pace.

BookRoom Service

Children make use of the BookRoom by borrowing a book every week from our extensive library of literature for each level of learning.

Building a reading home

Children from Kindergarden 1 to Primary 1 levels receive books each term from the reading series to keep. These are read and extended in class with the teacher over a period of weeks, after which children take them home to enjoy with the family. Parents' acknowledgement of their child's reading success is an important element of the programme, building confidence and powerful motivation for further development of skills.

Reports and communication

Parents are an important part of their children's language and literacy development. Our teachers are guides for both children and parents so we welcome parents to be part of the learning, by communicating regularly with their teachers, visiting class at the beginning and end of term, and reading with their child each week. Parents receive a written report of their child's progress at the end of each term.