Reading is at the heart of our curriculum enabling all children to be fluent, confident, life long readers who understand what they have read.

 

 

We ensure that our children will experience a wide range of texts that promote fluency, understanding and develop regular reading habits. In school, texts are chosen to reflect our rich literary heritage and we place an emphasis on regular reading and reading for pleasure, both in school, and at home . Through a progressive use of language rich texts, children’s ability to work with more complex language is developed.  Engaging texts are key to the planning and delivery of Reading and Writing in our school.

 

Reading opens the door to learning. A child who reads a lot will become a good reader. A good reader will be able to read more challenging material. A child who reads challenging material is a child who will learn. The more a child learns, the more he or she will want to find out. 

 

 

Our Reading Scheme:

 

Our School Reading Scheme follows the book banded system, see below.

This means that within each book band the children have access to a range of high quality reading materials from recognised publishing houses that are at that same reading level. For instance, within our Brown level book band we have books from Rigby Star, Rising Stars Oxford Reading Tree, Oxford Owl, Reading Chest, Collins Big Cat and Project X.