Reading

We celebrate and promote reading throughout the Junior years. We have author assemblies termly and ‘Reader of the Week’ to highlight the enjoyment reading can bring. Our library takes a central role in the heart of the school with Year Six children acting as librarians supported by a skilled Assistant.

Many of the books in the library and shelves are colour banded (please note our colours are different to the Infant School and extend to very able readers). Children may change their books as often as they’d like and many will use the library to select books from.

In years three and four, each week your child will read as part of a group in guided reading, which may be recorded in your child’s diary. We also encourage children and parents/carers to log any reading at home. From year five the teachers introduce buddy readers and some group reading. Reciprocal reading techniques are being used in year four which we will evaluate over the year.

Target cards are available by the book shelves in the long corridor. The target cards are designed to support your child with some appropriate personal targets and some ideas of how they can be helped at home.

Your child will be given the opportunity to change their books in lesson time most days and the library is open during lunch time so that your child can change books and also take out some of our non-fiction titles.

Reading diaries are provided and parents are encouraged to add entries so teachers can celebrate reading and encourage your child’s home reading.

Some children are taught using a structured phonic scheme called Read, Write Inc. This can include older children using the Fresh Start materials and Comprehension resources. Often this would be part of regular lessons or as a group intervention.