Reading
Led by: Mrs Prinold
The nature of reading
English has a pre-eminent place in education and in society. A high-quality education in English will teach pupils to speak and write fluently so that they can communicate their ideas and emotions to others, and through their reading and listening, others can communicate with them. Through reading in particular, pupils have a chance to develop culturally, emotionally, intellectually, socially, and spiritually. Literature, especially, plays a key role in such development. Reading also enables pupils both to acquire knowledge and to build on what they already know. All the skills of language are essential to participating fully as a member of society; pupils who do not learn to speak, read, and write fluently and confidently are effectively disenfranchised.
Curriculum Intent
We are committed to the delivery of excellence in the teaching of phonics and early reading. Our children come to school with very differing experiences of books and reading. We want all children to read fluently and confidently. We want our children to develop a love of reading and to build a rich vocabulary but also of grammatically correct speech for writing. Our children will have access to a wide range of meaningful texts from the earliest stage, so we have created a reading spine which includes classics and essential. Through reading we want our children to enter worlds beyond their personal experience creating a sense of wonder and imagination. We want reading to ignite children’s curiosity and a sense of fascination about characters, places, and facts. Through stories we want our children to hear the conventions of Standard English and appreciate our rich and varied literary heritage.
Curriculum Implementation
- through professional development all staff gain the necessary subject knowledge to teach children how to read.
- Developing oral language is a priority for all children developing the skills and knowledge that go into listening and speaking because these have a strong relationship to reading comprehension and to writing.
- we believe that phonics knowledge is taught as the main strategy for teaching early reading and we will teach phonics through a scheme called Floppy’s phonics.
- children’s reading will be developed through high quality teaching and carefully thought-out sequences of lessons, so children learn to read easily, fluently and with good understanding.
- reading material is chosen in a thoughtful way so children can acquire a rich vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions.
- through whole class shared and guided group reading children are taught how to understand inference as well as how to predict and retrieve relevant information quickly from a text.
- we teach children how to critically reflect on and respond to text in a sensitive way giving time for discussion so children can elaborate and clearly explain their understanding and ideas.
- children are given time and the opportunity to develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information both at home and at school.
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