Reading occurs throughout the school day, right across the school curriculum and the ‘Reading Book’ is only one part of your child’s reading development.

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School offers a wide variety of reading materials and experiences.

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Reading is integral to most classroom activities and learning. Children develop their reading through interactive white board materials, big books, topic books, worksheets, signs, posters, displays etc.

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At KS1 your child will read their school reading book with a teacher , TA or support on an individual basis at least once a week. If they are identified as a priority reader they will read two to three times a week with an adult. They will all also read at least three times in RWI lessons with specific phonic texts to meet their phonic needs.

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It is expected that all children should practice their reading with an adult at home on a daily basis, to help develop their skills, sight vocabulary, phonics, fluency and love of reading.

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At KS2 we aim to hear all children in Y 3 & 4 read at least once a week with an adult, at Y 5 & 6 this may be fortnightly. However priority readers will be identified and heard at least twice weekly on a one to one basis. Those children still on RWI will also read three times a week on the RWI program. All other children will have three focused reading days as part of their literacy teaching, where comprehension skills are taught and developed.

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We expect the children to read at home with an adult or independently, their school reading book and a variety of other texts. The ‘Reading Round the World’ program encourages the children to read for pleasure, which in turn develops all of their reading skills.

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