At Mount Wise Community Primary School, we place a huge emphasis on the power that words hold: be that orally, in print or communicated through writing. Providing our children with the opportunity to develop a love for reading underpins much of our curriculum. By engaging with a wealth of genres and texts, all children develop a breadth of experience that helps them to become well-read individuals, who can use these experiences to prepare them for a life-long relationship with the subject that underpins not only education but our society too. Our learners explore and develop an interest in reading and become equipped at evaluating their likes and dislikes, taking their love of reading further. Book talk is invaluable and learners are given time to discuss what they have read to enable them to fully appreciate and comprehend what they read. Our teachers expertly support the children to become fluent readers, who comprehend what they read. They enthuse learners to become readers for themselves and allow children to sit back and be taken to other worlds when engaging with inspiring texts. Through reading a range of carefully-selected texts, exploring texts from a range of authors and reading texts written by authors from all walks of life, pupils will gain ‘cultural capital’ that is necessary to become educated citizens and to succeed in all areas of the curriculum and in life beyond school. At Mount Wise Community Primary School, we understand that reading brings to life worlds that our pupils may not have visited, ensures pupils encounter vocabulary that they may not have heard before and lead to pupils developing their inquisitive minds and broaden their experiences and knowledge of the world around them. We are passionate about bringing this to life through daily story time and whole school reading events.

At Mount Wise Community Primary School, we ensure that pupils are taught the relevant content from the National Curriculum. We plan lessons that allow pupils to engage with a text and develop their fluency and comprehension of what they read.

The aims of teaching reading, as outlined in the National Curriculum, are to ensure that all pupils:

• read easily, fluently and with good understanding

• develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information

• acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading

• use discussion in order to learn; they should be able to elaborate and explain clearly their understanding and ideas

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Reading at home

Whilst pupils are developing their phonics knowledge through the use of the Read Write Inc (RWI) phonics programme, pupils will be provided with books that match their current phonics knowledge.

Once they have completed the RWI programme and are secure with applying phonics when reading, pupils will move onto the Accelerated Reader scheme. Pupils complete a Star Reading quiz, which will inform which books they can read from our library. Pupils can take a quiz on each book they read.