READING
OUR READING CURRICULUM AIMS
For children to;
- To read easily, fluently and effortlessly, with good understanding.
- To develop the habit of reading widely and often, both for pleasure and information.
- To develop a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of how the English language works for reading, writing and spoken language.
- To appreciate our rich and varied literary heritage.
APPROACH
We use the Read Write Inc approach to teach word reading through phonics across the school.
We teach:
- knowledge of the letters and their associated sounds (the alphabetic code)
- the speedy working out of the pronunciation of unfamiliar printed words (decoding) and the speedy recognition of familiar printed words (HFW)
- the ability to read words that do not follow the alphabetic code (tricky/yellow words)
If you would like to know more, there are lots of videos on this page: https://www.ruthmiskin.com/parents/
Comprehension / Talk for Reading
Pupils experience a range of activities in classes, groups or individually to develop:
- the ability to process text, drawing on knowledge of vocabulary, word meanings and grammar, and their own knowledge of the world.
- matching reading with what they already know, making links within and across texts.
- identifying themes - asking and answering questions.
- retrieving, inferring and deducing from texts.
- awareness of the author: how they have used a point of view, the language and/or types of words, how they have set out the text, what the context is.
- empathy and understanding – putting themselves ‘in someone else’s shoes’.
Fun Reading
As well as pupils hearing and enjoying a good book every day, we have regular cross curricular theme days, WOW days and longer projects for reading including:
- Specific reading focussed days such as World Book Day.
- ‘Author Weeks’ organised by the local authority ‘Whatever it takes’ (WIT) partnership, where a published author visits school and presents their work to our pupils.
- WIT also help us to run the Year 2 ‘Our Best Picture Book’ awards with votes cast by pupils and the Year 1 ‘Our Brilliant Book Club’.
- Visits to the local library and visits from the librarian.
- Supporting library activities such as story telling sessions and the summer reading challenge.
- School Book Fair week.
- The fun Reading Round About session where pupils choose a book from a choice and go somewhere different to hear it in a story session.
OUR READING SPINE
* New books are added regularly |
Catherine Infant English Curriculum Reading Diet- books that are studied for reading and writing and others that are read for fun!* |
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Learning Cycle 1 | Learning Cycle 2 | Learning Cycle 3 | Learning Cycle 4 | Learning Cycle 5 | |
Nursery |
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? |
Mr Wiggle and Mr Waggle |
The Little Red Hen |
Stuck in The Mud |
Squeaky Story The Three Billy Goats Gruff |
Hug We’re Going On A Bear Hunt |
Brown Bear Rosie’s Walk The Train Ride |
Where’s Spot? The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
Hairy Maclary Come On Daisy Jasper’s Beanstalk |
You Choose Dear Zoo |
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Reception |
The Gingerbread Man |
Baby Mouse |
Sleepy Bumble Bee |
Jack And The Beanstalk |
Farmer Duck The Kiss That Missed |
Handa’s Surprise Goodnight Moon |
Whatever Next Owl Babies The Gruffalo |
Mrs Armitage On Wheels Six Dinner Sid |
On The Way Home Farmer Duck Shhh! |
Mr Gumpy’s Outing The Gruffalo |
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Year 1 |
The Enormous Turnip |
How to Catch A Star How To Catch A Fairy (Non-Fiction) |
Handa’s Surprise Amazing Antelope (Non-Fiction) |
No Bot, The Robot with No Bottom |
The Storm Whale |
Peace at Last Avocado Baby Can’t You Sleep Little Bear? |
Lost and Found Cops and Robbers Elmer |
The Elephant and The Bad Baby The Tiger Who Came To Tea |
Dogger Beegu |
The Invisible Where The Wild Things Are |
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Year 2 |
Meerkat Mail |
Supertato | Bob’s Best Ever Friend |
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark |
George and The Dragon How To Trap A Dragon |
Not Now, Bernard Pumpkin Soup Mr Penguin and The Lost Treasure The Bear And The Piano |
Traction Man Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Book? Tuesday Flat Stanley Fantastic Mr Fox The Barnabus Project Amazing Grace |
Frog and Toad Together Gorilla Dr Xargle’s Book Of Earthlets |
Emily Brown and The Thing The Hodgeheg Waiting For Wolf |
The Giraffe and The Pelly and Me |
HOME READING
We encourage parents, siblings and close relatives to read with children. Pupils know that they are expected to read at home as often as they can. All pupils take a ‘Book Bag’ containing books and a reading diary to and from school each day. There will be a levelled book, a phonically decodable book – closely matched to the letter shapes and associated sounds children are learning in class and perhaps word lists and/or phoneme sheets.
Teachers will make comments in the reading diaries prompting parents about how to help their children.
Here are some tips
https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/tips-and-advice/reading-tips/
CATHERINE INFANT SCHOOL READING PROVISION
Phonics | Reading | |||
Class teaching | Additional support/Catch up | Class Reading | Additional support/Catch up | |
Nursery |
Auditory discrimination activities. Learning Read Write Inc letter names and rhymes and initial sound. |
We provide a range of support for children across the school including:
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Depending on the age of the child teaching includes:
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We provide a range of support for children across the school including:
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Reception | Read Write Inc in class groupings. | |||
Year 1 | Read Write Inc in class groupings with small group. | |||
Year 2 | Read Write Inc in class groupings with small group. |