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Our Approach

to Reading

Reading as a passport to the world...

 

  • Trips to the library:

  • An amazing library stocked with a range of exciting books

  • Reading records tor 1:1 

  • Reading bookmarks - with comprehension questions for parents

  • Word Book Day

  • Library slots

  • Tutor time reading

  • Reading spine

  • Book fairs

  • Children are read to every day

  • Reading in residence

  • English Curriculum centred on the best Literature available Y2 -Y11

  • Spaces for reading across the school

  • Using songs and rhymes cross curriculum

  • Topic related immersion in texts

  • Visiting authors

  • Theatre trips

  • File adaptations

  • Parent Reading Cafes​

​The functional skills required to read...
 

  • Sounds Write

  • Phonics posters in every classroom

  • Timetabled Literacy Skills Lessons

  • Timetabled Literacy catch-up

  • Phonics Interventions

  • Literacy Mats

  • Reading Assessments

  • Staff Training

  • SLT pick up regular random readers

  • SSP - Fluency - Understanding

  • Subtitles for documentaries

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Every time a child reads or is read to in your class:

 

  • Use Soundswrite lo decode tricky words

  • Each teacher asks questions around vocabutary, retrieval, summarising, inference, prediction, compare / contrast / comment

  • Curriculum and Subject specific reading using a visualiser

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