The Reading Framework

This guidance is for:

• Teachers
• School Leaders
• Reading and Literacy Leads
• Governing Bodies
• ITT providers

This guidance:

• focuses on the early stages of teaching reading and the contribution of talk, stories and systematic synthetic phonics (SSP)
• supports primary school leaders to evaluate their teaching of early reading and best practice for improving early reading, especially in Reception and Year 1, and older pupils who have not yet mastered the foundations of reading
• helps schools to meet existing expectations for teaching early reading, as set out in:
  • the national curriculum programmes of study
  • the statutory framework for the early years foundation stage
  • Ofsted’s education inspection framework