Reading

"I love spending time in the library, I can sit on the beanbag and read my favourite Harry Potter book"

(Year 6 Child)

Intent

At Great Kimble, we believe that reading is an essential life skill and we are committed to enabling our children to become lifelong readers. At the heart of our strategy is our drive to foster a love of reading, enriching children’s learning through our Bug Club phonics programme, exciting diverse independent readers and a wide range of teaching activities that utilise imaginative stories and thought-provoking texts.

We therefore intend to encourage all pupils to read widely across both fiction and non-fiction so all children are exposed to a variety of literature, genres and authors to:

• Develop knowledge of themselves and the world in which they live

• to establish an appreciation and love of reading

• to gain knowledge across the curriculum

• to develop their comprehension skills

• develop the self-awareness to understand the kind of reader they are.

We are committed to providing a broad and diverse range of texts and books from across the curriculum which are rich in vocabulary. The sharing of stories is central to our provision throughout the school so children enjoy both reading and being read, encouraging a love of reading in throughout their lives.

Reading is a skill that enables children to develop their learning across the wider curriculum and lays the foundations for success in future lines of study and employment. Within our school, children will learn about VIPERS skills and this is the basis for the skills within our reading curriculum.

Implementation

Reading Curriculum Statement.pdf

Recommended Reads for each Year Group (Books for Topics)

Promoting a love of Reading

We are lucky to have a spacious school library, which is a welcoming place that is stocked with good-quality, appropriate books. Each year group can visit the library session and are able to bring library books to read at home.

Each class is provided with a Reading Scrapbook, This is a creative book that is taken home by each child throughout the year. These scrapbooks give the children an opportunity for them to reflect on some of their favourite reads from home. They can draw a picture, write a review, write an adaptation, paint their feelings...whatever they want! We then share their thoughts and feelings with the rest of the class.

What do the children of Great Kimble say about Reading?

"I love it when it is the time of day when we get to read our class reader, Miss, Butler makes the story sound exciting and we link it to our guided reading work" (Year 3 Pupil)

"VIPERS helps me when I am reading my own stories, I like to predict what is going to happen and it helps me think about the words I use in my writing to make it more exciting" (Year 4 Pupil)

" We have been reading Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown as our class reader, I love it! we all laugh so much when Mrs. Andrews reads to us" (Year 2 Pupil)

"I enjoy guided reading, especially fiction! we have started a new suspense story and linking it to our new Talk for Writing story" (Year 6 Pupil)

"Every Friday we get to go to the library with Mrs. Cook. I love just looking at the books and reading them together. We get to borrow them and take them home to read" (Year 2 Pupil)