Love of reading
The love of reading is the golden thread throughout our school. Every child will not only leave Netherton as a reader but as a lover of reading.
We aim to:
Develop happy, healthy and curious learners who read confidently and fluently
Help our pupils to develop a lifelong enjoyment of reading, taking genuine pleasure from what they read
Give our children the reading skills they need to access all areas of the curriculum
Allow all children to use reading to become immersed in other worlds both real and imagined
To create reading opportunities across all areas of the curriculum, to make it more meaningful and relevant to the children
Early reading
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We teach reading through Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised, which is a systematic and synthetic phonics programme. We start teaching phonics in Reception and follow the programme’s progression, which ensures children build on their growing knowledge of the alphabetic code, mastering phonics to read and spell as they move through school.
In Nursery we begin our reading journey by sharing high-quality stories and poems, learning a range of nursery rhymes and action rhymes and providing activities that develop focused listening and attention.
In Reception we build from daily 10-minute phonic lessons, with additional daily oral blending games, to the full-length 30 minute lessons as quickly as possible. Each Friday, we review the week’s teaching to help children become fluent readers.
Gaining fluency
Until children are fluent to the end of Phase 5 they are taught to read through reading practise sessions 3 times a week focusing on decoding, prosody: teaching children to read with understanding and expression and comprehension: teaching children to understand the text.
Once children are fluent with the book they have been reading each week, the book will be allocated via Collins Big Cat e-books so their reading achievements can be celebrated with parents/carers.
Reading for Pleasure
We value reading for pleasure highly and read to children every day. We choose these books carefully as we want children to experience a wide range of books.
Each class has a library which children are free to access daily and can take a book home with them to share as often as they wish.
BEAR (Be Excited About Reading) time takes place regularly in each class and a wide range of books are made available for the children to share with each other and the class bear.