This page does not reflect current practise.
At Colebourne, a range of reading schemes are used to support readers, including book banded ‘real books’ used for guided reading and home reading. Teaching assistants support reading activities to ensure that children have more frequent opportunities to read with adults. Books are changed on a regular basis and when the child has completed the book.
During reading sessions, teachers model reading strategies, whilst children have the opportunity to develop these strategies and to discuss texts in detail. A range of reading strategies are taught, which children use to help them with reading. Independent reading provides time for both assessment and 1-1 teaching by staff. Daily discreet phonics lessons in FS and KS1 enable children to decode efficiently through following the Read Write Inc. Programme. More information about this can be found at http://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/read-write-inc-programmes/phonics/. This is continued into KS2 where necessary through Read Write Inc. sessions.
A parent information Padlet containing some useful resources to support children at home can be found here:
https://colebourneprimary.padlet.org/MissNelson/OurRWIPadlet
As children become more confident with Set 2 and Set 3 sounds, parents can also begin to work on their reading fluency (the speed at which they read). Reading fluency is also a key skill when developing comprehension and understanding what we read. Parents can support their children with reading fluency by reading with them regularly. Rereading books, or choosing favourite pages from their book can be a good way to boost confidence when reading aloud. Parents could also introduce some games and personal challenges, such as giving children 1 minute to see how much of their story they can read, before challenging them to read a few more words next time.
We still encourage all readers to share a book at home with their grown-ups, no matter their reading level. We believe that this not only helps to develop inferential skills, but also supports a lifelong love of reading. We also recognise the value of adults (both in school and at home) reading aloud to children in order to improve their grasp of story language, enthuse them with a love of books and inspire them as writers. Therefore there is a daily timetabled in class reading time where teachers share a class novel from a planned and progressive cannon of text
Many exciting and rewarding activities are arranged in school to promote the pleasure and knowledge that can be gained from books, for example World Book Day and Poetry Week as well as visits from children’s authors to encourage and promote reading and writing.