Reading

At Landscore we value reading as a key life skill, and are dedicated to enabling our pupils to become fluent and lifelong readers. We believe reading is key for academic success and therefore intend our children to become successful readers as quickly as possible by:

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• Children are taught to decode text using phonics. Across the school, we use a DFE approved systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) programme of ‘Little Wandle’. This is supported by phonetically decodable books, matched to the scheme, for children to read. Once children have completed this program, and are fluent readers, they move onto using ‘Accelerated Reader’.

• Children take part in regular Guided Reading lessons to develop their decoding, fluency and moreover comprehension. In these sessions, children are exposed to a range of texts and have the opportunity to explore and question their understanding of them, with the support of an adult. We make explicit links to what we see writers create in their books and what we try to create in our own writing. We make these links using both our ‘Purpose Boards’ and ‘Know, Grow, Show’ vocabulary walls.

• Whole class shared and modelled reading sessions.

• We are very lucky to have a wide range of reading books in our school. All children from Reception to Year 6 choose a reading book to take home.

• The class teachers frequently read a class book to children. We have a ‘Reading Spine’ from which teachers can select books from, as well as sharing their own and children’s choices. These books often inspire pieces of writing and writing sequences as well as allowing opportunities to explore new vocabulary.

• Direct teaching of the reading curriculum through English Sequences (English Lessons)

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By the time, children leave Landscore they will be competent readers who can recommend books to their peers, have a thirst for reading a range of genres, including poetry, and participate in discussions about books, including evaluating an author’s use of language and the impact this can have on the reader.