Reading

Intent
At Sturton By Stow Primary School, our aim is for Reading to support our pupils to develop culturally, emotionally, intellectually, socially and spiritually. Literature has the ability to play a key role in this development, allowing children to gain knowledge, build on this and become life-long learners who love reading.

We want children to be:

• Confident and skilled word readers.
• Able to comprehend and discuss what is read by them or to them.
• Readers who love books and read for pleasure.

Implementation

Our curriculum is structured around books and texts. We weave a range of age-appropriate texts into all our themes and subjects to promote a love of books and reading but also to ensure children are continually delving into high quality texts. There is a good balance of fiction and non-fiction texts throughout the term, so children are exposed to a range of genres. This increases their knowledge and understanding of vocabulary and the structure and grammar of writing. It also increases their knowledge and understanding of the world they live in as it feeds their imagination. At SBS we teach the skills of reading explicitly through class, group and individual work. This is also supported by our teaching of phonics using the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds scheme. Group reading practice sessions happen three times per week in Reception and Year 1 in line with our Phonics programme. There is a different focus for each session – decoding, prosody and comprehension. Whole class reading sessions, 'Book Dives', happen regularly throughout the week from year 2 to year 6. In these sessions the teacher models fluency and comprehension skills as texts are read and studied. All classes also spend time exploring the shared text through discussion and learning tasks designed to consider the content in depth and develop inference, prediction, explanation and retrieval skills through a shared enjoyment of reading. Each term classes also practise answering questions linked to a text in both an oral and written format. This range of learning strategies link directly with the reading content domains found in the National Curriculum Test Framework documents.
We use the 2014 National Curriculum for Reading which has programmes of study for each year group from Year 1 up to Year 6.

EYFS
In the EYFS Reading is a specific area of Learning and Development within Literacy. Children are taught an appreciation of reading with a heavy focus on stories, rhymes and poems. Books, including non-fiction texts are used to enhance all areas of the curriculum. The mechanics of reading is taught through daily Phonics sessions (see separate Phonics Overview) This continues to be built upon through Key Stages 1 and 2.

Impact
Class Teachers monitor progress in Reading through reading with children individually, in groups and as a class. Several times a year children complete a PIRA reading assessment which further checks progress and identifies areas where children may need support. All children in year 2 and year 6 complete the National SATs Reading papers. Progress in Reading is tracked by class teachers and data is collected and analysed three times per year.

The Reading Subject Leader monitors whole school progress through:
• Learning walks
• Pupil interviews
• Data from progress grids
• Data from PIRA assessments

We aim to ensure all of our learners are confident and proficient in their Reading skills to support their knowledge in all areas of the curriculum by the time they leave SBS.

SBS Reading Spine