Reading
Home Reading
We encourage you to read daily with your child at home with the minimum expectation being that your child’s reading record is signed three times a week. In the early stages of learning to read, your child will bring home a decodable book linked to their phonic knowledge. Once they are more fluent, they will move on to the Accelerated Reader program.
Accelerated Reader
Accelerated Reader is a computer program that allows us to manage and monitor your child’s independent reading. Each pupil selects a book at their reading level and then completes an online quiz once they have finished reading it. These quizzes allow us to check that children understand what they have read. Through their participation in Accelerated Reader, pupils can build up points for a range of rewards.
Bug Club
Every child in the school is provided with an Active Learn log on, which can be used to access Bug Club. This is an online program where books at your child’s reading level can be assigned to them. We encourage children to log on to Bug Club regularly and read these books as part of their home reading.
Reading
Children from Reception to Year 2 are taught in small groups, moving on to whole class teaching in Years 3 to 6. In these sessions, children build their decoding skills, expand their vocabulary, learn to read with expression and develop their comprehension. In Reception and Key Stage One, the children work with decodable books linked to their phonic knowledge before moving on to high quality texts linked to their topic work in Key Stage Two. Texts taught during reading lessons have been carefully selected to ensure quality.
Reading Spine
All teachers read aloud to their classes daily. We follow a reading aloud program called the Reading Spine, developed by Pie Corbett. Each year group has been assigned a range of high quality texts for reading aloud. By the time they leave our school, children will have had around 80 ‘essential reads’ read to them, creating a living library inside their mind.
Topic
As well as reading in their English and Guided Reading sessions, each topic across the school has been assigned a core text. This ensures that the children continue to have exposure to high quality texts that can inform their learning in the foundation subjects. The school also has a bank of high quality non-fiction texts that can be accessed during topic lessons.