Reading

Reading for Pleasure

Every day the teachers read aloud the class book to the children. These texts are chosen carefully so there is a range of high quality, diverse texts to engage the children and appeal to everyone. 

Reading is encouraged at home and all children have an appropriate reading book. Children can change their books throughout the week and teachers record when they have been changed and the books that they are choosing to read.  Children are encouraged to borrow books  from the school library which is open on Tuesday and Thursday lunchtimes.

Reading in KS1 and EYFS

Reading in KS1 follows the Little Wandle scheme. In Reading Practice children are split into small groups and everyone in the class reads with an adult. This is usually 5/6 groups of children with each group having one adult with them.  The sessions focus on either decoding, prosody or comprehension. Each group reads a book that matches the phonic phase they are currently assessed at. Children take their books home on Thursdays and return the book on Mondays. Children in year 2 who have completed the phonics scheme move onto the fluency books, then Collins Big Cat books but still follow the three times per week reading pattern.

All EYFS and KS1 children take home  a “book we know well” every week - these are books that they have shared in story times with their teachers. They can then share the book with adults or older siblings at home.

Children are encouraged to borrow books from the school library which is open on Tuesday and Thursday lunchtimes.