Reading
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At Holmes Chapel Primary School takes we believe that extensive reading and exposure to a wide range of texts makes a vital contribution to every child’s educational achievement. Reading for pleasure aims to establish each child as a lifetime reader. We ensure there is a wide range of texts within each classroom and teachers regularly read to the children. Effective reading aloud time is all about creating a positive reading experience to engage the students, so teachers model their enthusiasm for books and reading them. Teachers do not just read to the class but interact with them: ask questions about what has been read or the pictures they have been shown. This helps improve students’ comprehension of the story.
At Holmes Chapel Primary School, our children learn to have a strong command of the spoken and written word, and develop their love of literature through widespread reading for pleasure and enjoyment of high quality texts through study.
EYFS and KS1
Daily Little Wandle phonics sessions:
- To teach the children that they need to be able to recognise both the sounds (phonemes) in words and the letters, or groups of letters that make the sounds (graphemes) and to have the skills to blend for reading and segment for spelling
Little Wandle Reading sessions:
- Practice reading sessions 3 times a week of the same book to develop decoding, prosody (intonation) and comprehension.
Class books are read aloud to the children daily to further encourage their love of reading and develop vocabulary and wider literacy skills.
Year 2
A blended approach of Little Wandle phonics and reading sessions and whole class reading lessons using a range of books and sequences of lessons from the Just Imagine… Take One Book framework.
Once the children have completed their Little Wandle fluency and assessments, this brings an end to their reading of the Little Wandle texts. They are then Benchmarked prior to reading colour book-band books . The colour book-band books are then read within the practice reading sessions continuing with the same approach as in the Little Wandle reading sessions.
Class books are read aloud to the children daily to further encourage their love of reading and develop vocabulary and wider literacy skills.
KS2
Whole class reading lessons three to four times per week using a range of books and sequences of lessons from the Just Imagine… Take One Book framework. Each unit develops deeper reading learning, high levels of inference and understanding. Pupils explore and respond to texts through follow up tasks and activities.
Class books are read aloud to the children daily to further encourage their love of reading and develop vocabulary and wider literacy skills.
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