We want to develop and nurture children’s love of reading, so they become lifelong readers, and use this love to read for both study and pleasure. The firm foundations of reading are created through children’s phonic knowledge and skills.
We further build on these through developing fluency and accuracy when reading for different purposes and having a rich and extensive knowledge of vocabulary through reading a broad range of challenging, high quality texts. We aim for our children to flourish, unlocking lifelong learning in the classroom and wider world by being confident, resilient, reciprocal readers.
Our children will learn in a literacy-rich environment, have access to high quality texts and be exposed to extensive vocabulary and experience inspiring, effective learning. They will be fascinated and curious enough to ask questions about the world around them, developing empathy by learning about key concepts and by exploring texts from a diverse range of books. Our children learn resilience in reading by accessing challenging books, that are appropriate to their ability and texts that inspire reading for pleasure.
In Reception and Year 1, we follow the phonic scheme, Little Wandle to teach blending and use guided reading for the children to apply their phonic skills.
We use whole class reading from Years 2-6 as our main strategy to teach reading skills.
Using our progression, the children are exposed to a range of high-quality texts. Each session is sequenced using an introduction and recap, vocabulary check, modelled reading, and comprehension focus where skills taught are being applied.
Herts for Learning Reading Fluency is used to assess and monitor progress for children, alongside NFER for assessment. Guided reading is used as an intervention to support readers where needed.
Phonics Resources
Free phonics and reading games:
Phonics Play
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Teach your Monster to Read
https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/
Roy the Zebra
Oxford owl reading resources for parents includes:
Free e-books
Reading for Pleasure Hub
Here you can find lots of lovely interactive books to read online or watch with signing.
Online audio stories for children: for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 primary school pupils, aged 4 – 11. Stories cover a broad range of primary topics. Stories are grouped by theme and Key Stage and are typically about 5 minutes long. Ideal for fostering speaking and listening skills and stimulating children’s imaginations. New stories added week by week.
Featuring Actors reading children’s books
Storytime online with QR codes:
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Suggestions for Children’s Magazine Subscriptions:
https://www.booksfortopics.com/childrens-magazine-subscriptions
Audible
A huge selection of free children’s books for all ages for your child to listen to.
Vine Reading list
In the Vine Trust, we want to promote a love of reading in all of our pupils no matter what their age, gender or reading ability. Exposing children to a wide variety of good quality stories and texts helps to improve their vocabulary and comprehension skills whilst also introducing them to a whole host of experiences, both imaginary and real, that they might otherwise never experience.
At the Vine, we feel that parents and carers play a vital role in supporting pupils with their reading. Research into reading supports this belief and one finding in 2006 states that:
Parents and the home environment are essential to the early teaching of reading and fostering a love of reading; children are more likely to continue to be readers in homes where books and reading are valued (Clark and Rumbold, 2006).
We understand that it can be difficult to motivate children to read, especially now that technology is so appealing and accessible. It can also be challenging to get children to read different types of books. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Tom Gates, Harry Potter and books written by David Walliams are extremely popular and are great pieces of literature. However, it is important that children read a range of stories and books to support them in developing their own imagination and writing skills.
In light of this, we have produced a selection of lists to aid you at home in guiding and encouraging children to read a range of books. Each list contains good-quality, age relevant books that have stood the test of time and proven to be very popular with pupils that staff have taught over the years.
How to use the lists:
These lists are extensive but not exhaustive. There are so many wonderful options and choices.
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