English - Reading
At Booker Hill we want to develop communities of readers who read because they want to - because they enjoy the excitement and surprise that reading can bring.
Children are taught Early Reading using the Read, Write, Inc. phonics scheme and children in Key Stage 2 who need additional support also use the materials within Read, Write, Inc as part of their reading curriculum. Children working within the phonics curriculum have decodable books for home reading and those reading beyond the phonics stages have PM books (predominantly lower key stage 2) and Badger Reading books for their home reading. All children are encouraged to visit the school and class libraries to select books to read for enjoyment at home with parents.
Phonics is taught alongside or is followed by a variety of reading approaches including reciprocal / guided comprehension, whole class reading vipers lessons, Comprehension Ninja to teach retrieval and questions stems and whole class comprehension of visual and auditory texts using an exciting approach designed by teacher Jo Payne. More information about our approaches can be found through visiting the pages and documents within the links below.
Click here for a link to the national curriculum for Reading.