Reading
We aim for the teaching and learning of reading to give pupils the knowledge, skills and understanding to become avid, independent learners. Reading is a fundamental part of the learning experience at Hasland Junior School and the teaching and learning of reading is one of our main priorities. We believe it is a skill, which underpins a child's ability to access the wider curriculum and allows them to broaden their vocabulary and develop vivid imaginations in order to prepare them for the wider world. Prosody is used within children’s novel reading sessions, allowing pupils the opportunity to develop and progress their reading fluency based on the modelled reading by the teacher. Within these sessions, we also focus our questioning on the key skills of reading: vocabulary, inference, prediction, explaining, retrieval and summarising. Bookmarks are provided for parents to practice similar questioning at home when reading with their child in addition to reading diaries so that communication can be maintained between parent and teacher.
Through the wider curriculum, children further practice their reading automaticity and as a result enquire a wide vocabulary to ensure good understanding; acquiring strategies to further enable them to become independent learners,
Within our classroom reading corners and through our day-to-day teaching, daily novel reading sessions and regular library visits, we develop the children's love of reading for pleasure and expose them to a variety of literature, genres and authors. In order to follow progression, our class novels are selected from this website https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/
We are aware that not all children progress at the same speed within the learning of reading therefore reading interventions take place, including Sounds Write interventions (a phonic based programme for Key Stage 1 and 2), the Lexia reading computer based programme and reading fluency intervention groups. Daily 1:1 reading sessions are also planned for some children, using Dandelion phonic based reading books https://phonicbooks.co.uk/collections/dandelion-readers or their appropriately chosen free reading book..
Throughout the year, we schedule a variety of reading events for the school to promote the love of reading. Supported by the school’s reading champions, book recommendations are presented in celebration assemblies and involving parents, and the local and wider community, we have held Book Bistro’s, Booknics, fundraising events and parent/child reading mornings.
As a school, we understand it is important to keep up to date with the popularity of books amongst children so teachers regularly hold ‘booktalks’ in their classes. As a result our children love to read the books we have in school and as a school, we’re always looking for new books we can bring in to our reading areas.
Reading Intent, Implication and Impact document policy
Example: Reading Diary
