Reading Expectations and Homework
Reading is the beating heart of our school!
The Importance of Reading
Reading is the core skill children require to access their learning in a range of subjects. While children access regular phonics revisits and reading practise at school, it is also important that they are reading at home. This will help them improve their reading fluency and understanding of texts.
Reading in school
Whilst in school, children will be reading from a range of high-quality texts from our class Reading Journey bookshelf. Our Autumn Term Bookshelf theme will be ‘Heroes and Villains’, in Spring it will be 'Imagine', and in the Summer Term we will finish with 'Journeys'. We will be looking at different aspects of these themes in the high-quality books and poems we will be exploring.
Reading at home
It is so important to develop children's reading skills and nurture their love of reading. We would encourage you to read to your child as well as listen to them at home as often as possible.
Reading Opportunities
Although children can read many texts independently, please try to read with your child as much as possible to help to develop their reading skills. You may even ask them questions in relation to what they have read or help them if they are unsure of any vocabulary.
We like to encourage the children to read for pleasure as much as possible! They may choose their own books that they are interested in, in order to nurture their love of reading. We want children to enjoy reading, not just see it as a job! We will also visit the Key Stage Two Library regularly, so your child may choose a book to share at home.
There are plenty of opportunities for reading practice through everyday activities that will expose children to a range of texts. You could encourage them to read recipes, magazine articles, poems, instruction manuals, stories or even labels and signs. You could read to your child, they could read to you, or you could share a book together.
Reading Resources and Audiobooks
Please find links to various free reading resources and audiobooks. Audiobooks are a brilliant way of enjoying books being read aloud, whether they are shared with others, or listened to alone.
https://www.worldbookday.com/world-of-stories/
https://www.puffinschools.co.uk/resource-categories/bookextracts/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/articles/zh3t2sg
