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Reading Curriculum

We follow a Mastery approach to English through the programme ‘Pathways to Read’. Units of work are delivered using high quality texts and children in all year groups are given varied opportunities for reading. It supports the teaching of reading comprehension skills and develops reading fluency. Key skills are taught and repeated; there are multiple opportunities to use and apply the skills until they can be mastered fully and applied in independent reading.

In KS2, the programme is delivered through whole class shared reading lessons. In Y2, children participate in one whole class lesson followed by bespoke grouped reading at least once a week as well as individual reading. For pupils still needing support with phonics from years 2-6, we provide an individual reading programme that has phonically decodable texts at the heart of it. In our whole class reading, there is a clear teaching focus with the opportunity to master key reading skills in each session. There are follow on reading tasks to enable pupils to evidence the skills they have mastered independently.

Many opportunities for widening children’s vocabulary are given through the Pathways to Read approach and this builds on the extensive work we do in school to provide our children with a rich and varied vocabulary.  

You will find the end of year expectations for reading for each of our year groups in the attached documents. For further detail on the skills that your children are learning on a termly basis, please contact your class teacher.

• Reading Shed Our reading shed is now open!