Reading
Reading
Reading is central to everything we do in the Wise Owl Trust. We foster a love for reading throughout the curriculum. We do this by providing our children with opportunities to:
Access a range of high-quality texts to ignite and support learning throughout the RESPECT Curriculum.
Experience an inviting, engaging reading area in each classroom with a range of texts to read and enjoy.
Celebrate reading through fun, exciting activities as part of a curriculum enriched with visits, visitors and experiences such as World Book Day.
Listen to stories being read to them to inspire and motivate them to read for pleasure themselves.
Read at home through providing a range of texts for the children to take home and enjoy with their families and independently. Our main reading scheme is the Oxford Reading Tree and includes stories, non-fiction texts and poetry. In addition to a book from the scheme, our children are also able to take home books from a range of great authors to read at home such as Julia Donaldson, Jaqueline Wilson and Roald Dahl.
Our children are taught the mechanics of reading through daily interactive phonics sessions which take place across EYFS and Key Stage 1 following ‘Letters and Sounds’. Within these sessions, our children have opportunities to learn, practise, apply, investigate and consolidate their skills in a range of engaging activities taught in small, streamed groups which are each tailored to the learning needs of the children.
Daily guided reading groups ensure that our Key Stage 1 children have opportunities to discuss texts, forming opinions and viewpoints. They are challenged with questions which extend their comprehension skills and understanding.
Whole class reading lessons are taught in Key Stage 2, using a variety of challenging and interesting texts from across a range of text types. Our children are taught to analyse these texts in greater depth, drawing evidence from the texts to support their viewpoints and becoming more critical of an author’s intentions. Our children further develop their vocabulary and learn to answer a range of questions with an increasing amount of detail and consideration.