Whole School Reading Strategy

Aim: to develop confident readers who enjoy reading a diverse range of texts and are challenged to develop their reading skills, whilst engaged to promote a love of reading.  

We understand that reading covers decoding, comprehension and fluency.

To improve decoding skills for our weakest readers, who are reading below their chronological age, we employ a phonics curriculum led by trained staff within our learning support department. Further to this we have a programme of Lexia and Reciprocal Reading to target pupils whose reading age is below their actual age.

To ensure pupils develop their comprehension skills (their knowledge and understanding of what texts mean) a variety of strategies are used, which include Reciprocal Reading and reading programmes like Accelerated Reader including over an hour a week of dedicated AR time.

Teachers model fluency when they read to the class through their intonation of pitch, stress and rhythm; awareness of punctuation and pauses, pace of reading, and use of tone, to enhance meaning.

We have a fantastic provision in the library with a huge range of non-fiction and fiction texts, from a diverse range of authors including a range of themes. The library is very well attended by a wide range of pupils and book loans are high.

Our strategy for reading is underpinned by three areas: