English – Reading

Children will be taught to:

• Read aloud fluently and with prosody
• Read for meaning
• Develop the skills required for the critical reading of texts
• Read a wide range of fiction, poetry and non-fiction materials
• Use a range of strategies for reading including:
• Phonic (sounding the letters and blending them together. Visual (whole word recognition and analogy with known words)
• Contextual (use of picture and background knowledge)
• Grammatical (which words make sense)

EYFS, Year 1 and Year 2 follow Monster Phonics reading scheme, this supports  their phonic learning, children will take part in individual and group reading sessions. From Year 3 to Year 6 children take part in Whole Class Shared Reading sessions that are based on a variety of fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts.  In the sessions, children complete activities based on inference and deduction, retrieval and vocabulary. Small guided reading groups may take place ensuring teaching of reading is tailored to the children’s needs.

Reading Book Bags and Diaries

We expect children to have reading book bags in school each day.  This gives us the opportunities to read with children more often if the timetable allows.  Children will read with an adult at least once a week and this will be noted in the reading diary.  We ask that Parents/Carers  read with their child or listen to them read daily.  This could be the reading for pleasure text the children have chosen from school, a book on an online platform such as Reading Plus, a comic or newspaper or a book the child has at home.  We ask that Parents/Carers comment in the reading diaries about their child’s progress at least three times a week.  If the diary does not contain comments from Parents/Carers we will assume that a child has not received any support from home with their reading and we will contact Parents/Carers to offer help and advice.  Comments do not have to be lengthy.  We have added a picture with examples below.