Reading
Intent
We aim for our reading curriculum to be inclusive, engaging and tailored to our students’ needs. Together, we work to meet our students where they are, empower them to push themselves, and achieve their potential.
Our intent is to enable our children to:
· Read age-appropriate texts fluently and with age-appropriate comprehension
· Increase fluency when reading unfamiliar texts and passages using an appropriate speed and using proper conventions within reading
· Use essential key reading skills to deepen comprehension of age-appropriate texts
· Become confident readers who read to learn and for pleasure
· Develop a habit of reading a variety of texts and reading often
· Acquire a wide vocabulary with strong speaking and listening skills
Implementation
Reading is taught daily throughout the school. KS1 participate in daily phonics lessons using the Read Write Inc. program. Reading comprehension and vocabulary are taught throughout the day through other subjects and during class time. KS2 participate in phonics intervention lessons as needed and hold daily reading lessons incorporating fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills throughout the lessons. Fluency is practised throughout both schools using choral reading strategies, repeated readings, and modelling. We follow Hampshire reading learning journeys and structures when planning daily reading lessons using text drivers. These text-drivers are catered to the interests of needs of the children throughout the both schools. Using text drivers as the basis of a learning journey allow our teachers to cater to the necessary comprehension, fluency, and vocabulary skills applied directly into a book and these can be clearly modelled and explicitly taught. These text-drivers are catered to the interests of needs of the children throughout the both schools.
Phonics is taught daily throughout KS1. All students are levelled and half-termly assessed to show growth and move groups as needed. All teachers and LSAs are highly trained in delivering effective phonics lessons. As students move out of RWI, they are put into a group heavily focused on fluency and developing comprehension to prepare for KS2 reading lessons.
Impact
We measure the success of our reading curriculum through:
· Students working through and completing the RWI phonics program by the end of Year 1
· Accurately decoding age-appropriate tricky words through reading a variety of texts e.g. such as picture books, non-fiction texts, foundation texts, novels, reading passages, etc.
· Increasing accuracy through reading a variety of unfamiliar, age-appropriate passages
· Students increasing in their reading fluency through periodic fluency assessments and measured against age-appropriate fluency expectations
· Consistent growth through regular comprehension passages and assessments leading up to the termly assessments
· Assessment for learning is used to incorporate comprehension questions within each reading lesson to practice comprehension skills and become with certain question types within reading assessments
· Growth throughout using comprehension skills as measured on termly reading comprehensions assessments
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Skills Taught/Focus |
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Summer |
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EYFS-All Picture Books |
Marvellous Me Special Celebrations |
Terrific Transport Minibeast Madness |
Growing and Changing Fun on the Farm |
-Concepts of Print -Phonological Awareness -Conversations about stories |
-Read letters/sounds -Blend sounds -Letter groups -Common exception words |
-Re-read books to build confidence -Retell stories -Anticipate events -Read simple sentences -Use and understand vocabulary -Letter sounds
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Year 1 |
Fairy tales: Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks, Three Little Pigs Zog The Kiss That Missed |
Man on the Moon Look Up Aliens Love Underpants Dr. Xargle How to Catch a Star Flip Flap Safari Books about space |
Disgusting Sandwich Honda’s Surprise Oliver’s Vegetables Bubbles Clem and Crab The Wide, Wide Sea |
Responding to texts read to pupils through questioning |
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Year 2 |
The Colour Monster-PB The Ogre Who Wasn’t-PB Paddington-H Cave Baby-H Funny Bones-H |
Toby and the Great Fire of London-PB Where the Forest Meets the Sea-PB The Lorax-PB Around the World in 80 Days-PB |
The Tiny Seed-PB Silly Billy-PB The Magic Finger-N Gorilla-PB |
Fluency Choral Reading Echo Reading Paired Reading Independent Reading |
Comprehension Select and Retrieve Inference |
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Year 3 |
The Tunnel-PB Tin Forest-PB The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs-PB Where the Wild Things Are-PB, H Malala’s Magic Pencil-NF, DR Night Before Christmas Poem-H, P The Twits-F, N |
Escape From Pompeii-PB The Wizard of Oz-H When the Giant Stirred-PB Wisp-A Story of Hope-PB The Cat Who Went to Mecca-DR The Celts -informational text-NF Jumanji-PB
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Lila and the Secret of the Rain-DR
Midnight Leopard-DR The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish-PB, NF The Wish keeper’s Apprentice-N Nothing to See Here Hotel-N Amelia Fang and the Barbaric Ball-N Mountain Gorilla-N |
Fluency and Word Reading Choral Reading Echo Reading Paired Reading Independent Reading Fluency Text Marking |
Comprehension Clarify Select and Retrieve Respond and Explain Inference Language for Effect Themes and Conventions |
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Year 4 |
I Was There Boudica’s Army-N Romans on the Rampage-N Shel Silverstein Poetry-P Instructions for Giants-P Wild Animals of the North-NF Ice Palace-H |
The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas-N Blodin the Beast-PB The Great Kapok Tree-PB |
Arthur and the Golden Rope-PB The Incomplete Book of Dragons-NF
Need Poetry |
Fluency and Word Reading Choral Reading Echo Reading Paired Reading Independent Reading Fluency Text Marking |
Comprehension Clarify Select and Retrieve Respond and Explain Inference Language for Effect Themes and Conventions |
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Year 5 |
Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx-N/PB A Guide to Ancient Egypt-NF Holes-N Funky Chickens-P Fuzzy Mud-N |
You Wouldn’t Want to be Ill in Tudor Times-NF The Diver’s Daughter-N Cosmic? |
Boy Overboard-N The Kid’s Travel Guide to Australia-NF |
Fluency and Word Reading Choral Reading Echo Reading Paired Reading Independent Reading Fluency Text Marking |
Comprehension Clarify Select and Retrieve Respond and Explain Inference Language for Effect Themes and Conventions |
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Year 6 |
When the Sky Falls-N War and Nature Poems-P Oranges in No Man’s Land-H, DR Christmas Non-Fiction-NF |
Who Let the Gods Out-N The Night Train-P Ice Trap-PB Survivors |
The Giant’s Necklace-N, PB SATS Revision and preparation-HIAS The Explorer-DR Year 6 Production Script |
Fluency and Word Reading Choral Reading Echo Reading Paired Reading Independent Reading Fluency Text Marking |
Comprehension Clarify Select and Retrieve Respond and Explain Inference Language for Effect Themes and Conventions |
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Genre Key:
N - Novels
PB - Picture Books
NF - Non-Fiction
P - Poetry
H - Heritage
DR - Diverse and Representative
F - Film