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Christ Church CE Primary School
'Let your light shine' Matthew 5:16
Reading Spine
Christ Church's Reading Spine
Our Reading Spine Intent:
At Christ Church we teach children both how to learn to read and to read to learn.
Learning to read focuses primarily on the phonics skills of the children and being able to decode and blend sounds to read. This also includes alien words and high frequency words.
Reading to Learn focuses primarily upon the reading skills children require to read for pleasure and to develop subject knowledge.
Reading comprehension skills are taught explicitly in Years 2 to 6 in our daily whole class shared reading lessons. These lessons are based on the V.I.P.E.R.S reading skills and focused on a class text. Teachers and pupils focus on one text in each 'big' term. This is to ensure that there is enough time for pupils to delve deeply into the text, connect with characters, understand the underlying themes and learn new vocabulary and grammatical structures. Teachers may wish to supplement their class text with other shorter texts in order to support pupils in their understanding and practise of the reading skills.
In addition to this, reading for pleasure is valued highly at Christ Church. For each class, teachers and pupils have identified numerous 'high-quality' texts for every topic taught in that year group. We have ensured our selected texts represent a wide range of diversity in both authors and protagonists and are engaging to encourage a love for reading. A diet of fiction and non-fiction is promoted within our Reading Spine. Each week, a member of the teaching staff will share an extract of their favourite books with pupils in Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. This book is then shared with the wider school community through our school newsletter to allow parents to explore this further with children at home.
Foundation Stage and Year 1
We understand that children thrive on repetition and by re-reading stories to children, teachers can deepen their familiarity with a story and increase their emotional engagement. Re-reading allows children to hear new vocabulary over again, which helps them commit the meaning of new words into their long-term memory. Additionally, children have new opportunities to connect with characters and their feelings, and to relive the excitement and emotion of stories.
As such, children in the Foundation Stage will re-read their class 'reading for pleasure' books several times over the course of a term to enable them to explore the language and emotions more deeply.