Reading
Here at Greenfields we work to develop children as confident, competent and enthusiastic readers. We develop every child’s passion for reading while supporting their comprehension and understanding from different genres of text we explore in school.
Through reading in particular, pupils have a chance to develop culturally, emotionally, intellectually, socially and spiritually. Literature, especially, plays a key role in such development.
Reading also enables pupils both to acquire knowledge and to build on what they already know.
Reading at School
The early development of reading at Greenfields comes from story sharing, imaginative play and the daily discrete teaching of phonics. As the children develop their phonic knowledge and confidence, they begin segmenting more difficult words and blending them to read with increasing ease and fluency. Children across KS1 read from our Big Cat Collins collection which are fully decodable and link directly to our phonic scheme: Song of Sounds. Once children have embedded their phonic skills, they can then apply it to decoding passages in longer or more challenging texts.
In school we work to use whole class and individual reading opportunities where the children can explore a rich variety of fiction, non-fiction and poetry at an appropriate age and ability level. At every age, the children are exposed to high quality, challenging texts that build on their interests and link to topics we cover in our broad curriculum. We teach the reading skills using the Twinkl reading dogs.
ks1 and ks2 reading dogs 1 .pdf
Fostering a Love of Reading
Developing a love for reading is highly important to us here at Greenfields. To enrich our reading curriculum we celebrate reading in many ways:
- Celebrating World Book Day
- Reading buddies
- Our Read-a-saurus reward scheme in KS1
- Book projects
- Author visits
- Classroom library areas
- Our Juniper lunchtime library
