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Reading
At Topcliffe our children and staff love to read! From Reception up to Year 6, we pride ourselves with how our children are immersed in a wide range of different high quality texts. Books are used as a basis for learning, pleasure, talk and play so the children can value and celebrate diversity in culture and language, through reading. We wish to create readers, not just pupils who can read.
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
Dr Seuss
Reading has a central role in the curriculum and is given the highest priority. Children learn to read and then read to learn across the curriculum. Reading is taught in all of our classes daily through phonics teaching in EYFS and KS1 and in whole class reading sessions during the week in KS2. We use our ASPIRE approach to support our teaching of reading in Key Stage 2 and aim to build children's knowledge, skill and fluency in reading and comprehension but also their ability to think deeply about their reading and develop their experiences of the word around them. Our writing curriculum is also based around high quality picture books and texts which add to our children's experiences and build out children's knowledge of text types, genres, authors and cultures.
We are developing a reading for pleasure ethos using our daily story time, reading corners in classes and our well stocked library and are taking part in an Open University Project in 2024-2025 to further develop reading for enjoyment and pleasure across school enhancing our knowledge of children as readers and also developing our teachers as readers too.
You can see examples of our reading spine and target texts for reading lessons for Key Stage 2 here:
Y2-Reading-Texts-Overview-1.pdf
Y3-Reading-Texts-Overview-1.pdf
Y4-Reading-Texts-Overview-1.pdf
We enjoyed a whole school project reading books about Great People - some examples of the work children completed can be seen below.
