Patterdale Reading Curriculum

INTENT

At Patterdale, we recognise that being able to read is a vital life skill and has far-reaching implications for lifelong goals, confidence and wellbeing. We promote a love of reading in all classrooms and want to ignite a passion for reading in all children as soon as they start school.

High quality, consistent phonics teaching and access to phonetically decodable books provides all children with the chance to develop the starting point they need as they begin their journey in education. Across the school, we teach a range of reading skills which will allow children to comprehend a variety of texts.

The range of authors and text types we look at provide children with a balanced reading diet and encourage children to explore different authors and genres. Opportunities to share reading with others are built in to the school day and sharing books and texts provides children with opportunities to learn from each other and learn from mistakes. We also have reading volunteers who come into school.

TEACHING MIXED AGE CLASSES

Children are taught in mixed age classes and follow a 3/4-year plan for their reading. High quality reading texts are chosen for the children and these match the text types being used for their writing.

CONTENT

At Patterdale, we teach reading daily. We expose children to a number of different fiction and non-fiction texts and provide opportunities for the children to discuss what they have read whilst making links, asking questions and making predictions.

We believe that while providing children with a love and appreciation of reading, it is also our responsibility and duty to ensure all children leave us with the fundamental skills to enable them become lifelong readers.

Each daily lesson contains an opportunity to practise fluency, oracy, and we recap previously introduced vocabulary.

We use VIPERS, which enable us to ask appropriate questions linked to the knowledge and skills children need to improve their comprehension of texts. (We use the Literacy Shed VIPERS).

Reading is an important skill for life and we aim to produce children who are confident readers and who enjoy reading.

The children at Patterdale will:

• Demonstrate that they have the skills to be able to read an age-appropriate text fluently and can apply the taught skills independently.

1. They are able to express a love of reading and understand why they read.
2. They will perceive themselves as readers and not just children who read through reading regularly for pleasure.
3. They will be motivated to read a range of texts and will summarise; ask questions and make predictions about what they are reading.
4. They are able to participate enthusiastically in discussions about what they have read and are able to express themselves.
5. They will be inspired and influenced by a diverse range of quality texts and can draw upon these when choosing or recommending a book.
6. They will share and enjoy books with our reading volunteers.

At Foundation Stage, we will encourage and support children in the development of pre-reading skills as part of the process of becoming fluent readers.

At Key Stage 1/2 teachers/adults in school will hear each child read regularly and children will take books home for parents to share and support their reading development.

Stories and poetry are read to children at all stages within the school to stimulate their reading for pleasure. The school has a library with a wide range of books which the children can access independently.

 

ASSESSMENT & MONITORING

EYFS: half termly phonic assessments

Year 1: half termly phonic assessments and end of year phonics screening.

Year 2 - Year 6: Using FFT reading assessment tests (Fluency and Decoding), the children will carry out a September baseline and end of term assessments.

Year 2 – Year 6: Test Base Reading Comprehension Test at the end of each term.