Reading
Our Vision
“To nurture a lifelong love of reading in every child, developing confident, curious and enthusiastic readers.”
At Spring Hill reading is... The Key to Success! Having a love of reading. Decoding, inferring and comprehending.
KS2 - Our Reading Lead is Miss Gregory.
KS1 - Our Early Reading and Phonics Leaders at Miss Warbrick and Miss Watkins.
At Spring Hill Community Primary School, we shape our English curriculum to ensure it is fully inclusive to every child. Through this we aim to equip all children with the ability to explore and understand the wider word of adventure and wonder that books open to us.
Intent
A high-quality education in English will teach pupils to read fluently so that they can communicate their ideas and emotions to others and through their reading and listening so that others can communicate with them. We work hand in hand with parents & carers to provide a reading education of the highest quality, which celebrates everyone’s success in a happy, caring environment and where all our differences are valued. Our reading curriculum is designed to meet the content requirements of the DFE’s ‘National Curriculum in England: English Programmes of Study’ (2014) and the language and literacy sections of the ‘Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage’ (2014). Our curriculum aims to develop pupils’ competence in reading so that they are equipped with this skill for the rest of their life. Alongside the skill of reading, the love of reading is also well promoted. We intend for it to be exciting and engaging by choosing quality texts and by providing a vocabulary rich environment.
Implementation
Reading at Spring Hill is taught through a daily English lesson, Guided Reading sessions and daily phonics session (KS1/ EYFS). English lessons are planned using the Pie Corbett 'Talk For Writing' units to ensure that coverage of genre and progression through each year group, key stage and across school. Talk for Writing is an engaging teaching framework based on the principles of how children learn. It enables children to imitate the language they need for a particular topic orally, before reading and analysing it, and then writing their own version.The imitation stage during English units involves word reading and comprehension (both listening and reading) through the use of a visual text map, giving high importance within the long term planning of English. Phonics sessions in EYFS and KS1 use Read, Write Inc Phonics as a base for teaching whilst also being supplemented by other activities.
In Reading, we teach a Guided Reading curriculum that actively promotes the teaching and learning of specific reading and study skills to become a confident and enthusiastic reader, such as:
Our reading curriculum teaches the children how to analyse comprehension questions before using specific reading skills, to analyse the text and to skim and scan to find the answers. Our approach develops literal thinking, deductive reasoning, inferential skills, evaluative assessment of texts and study skills which promotes independent thinking and learning.
Children have access to author-based, diverse book collections in our beautifully rennovated new and engaging school library, where each class has a designated library slot. During this slot, pupils can go and enjoy their time, reading for pleasure in a space that is purposeful and inspiring. Each class is provided with a high- quality, progressive book spine which includes a diverse range of authors and characters to reflect our children's identiies and the wider world. Our book spine progresses in vocabulary and complexity, ensuring clear progress - linking to our English intent. Our long term book spine planning ensures that each class reads six books as a 'class novel' at 3-3:20pm each day. In addition to this, books from our book spine are readily available for children to read for pleausre in their own time and pupil's have access to a ' Reading Challenge Sheet' in their home reading journals, ticking off book covers as they read them.
Here is an example of our 'Reading Challenge'.
Impact
Throughout our Reading sessions, children learn to identify the key language features within each genre and the reading skills are continually reinforced across the curriculum. Children are given the skills and tools to access other areas of the curriculum and life using their Reading skills. The lifelong impact of our Reading curriculum for our children is to create readers who nurture a lifelong love of reading, developing each child to become confident, curious and are enthused by reading a range of genres and text types.
Reading For Pleasure at Spring Hill!
Our Spring Hilll Reading for Pleasure Bags
Each child has access to a Reading for Pleasure bag containing:
A “Big Dreams, Small People” book
Hot chocolate to enjoy with their book, teddy (ks1), blanket (ks2) to snuggle whilst reading and a witches’ finger to follow the text with.
Encourages cosy, family reading experiences at home.
Fosters emotional connection and shared enjoyment of book.