New Reading Intent Jan 2025
Reading
Intent
At Intack we want to ensure that all of our children develop a life-long love of reading.
To ensure our children become the most confident, skilled readers they can be, we strive:
- To create a reading culture where reading is prioritised, valued and celebrated.
- To ensure every child learns to read skilfully with increasing fluency and speed, enabling automaticity and an enjoyment of books.
- To develop our children’s reading skills systematically, initially through high quality systematic phonic teaching using Little Wandle so that their skills develop through decoding and fluency to comprehension, and then using skills of prediction, clarifying and questioning to develop the higher order reading skills that will enable them to become fluent independent readers who evaluate and discuss texts confidently.
- To give our children the opportunity to practise and develop their skills regularly through guided reading sessions in small groups giving specific guidance to individuals, shared reading and moving into whole class reading in upper KS2.
- To develop our children’s precise understanding of key vocabulary in order to be able to fully comprehend texts.
- To assess the learning needs of new arrivals to our school and ensure that effective reading interventions such as Little Wandle Rapid Catch Up, fluency groups and additional comprehension support are tailored to help pupils make accelerated progress.
- To develop our children’s love of reading by allowing pupils to select both their own class books and home reading books in KS2 at the appropriate ZPD level. This ensures they are reading books they will enjoy, at the appropriate level of challenge to develop their skills.
- To encourage our children to share books with their families which they have selected from our school library. These books are to be shared and enjoyed together and may be of a higher level than the child could comfortably read independently.
- To encourage our children to share books with each other and make reading recommendations to other readers by passing on the titles of books we have loved so others can enjoy them too.
- To ensure our children experience high-quality texts, a wide range of authors and an array of genres (including our carefully selected class novels for story time) which help to establish an appreciation and love of reading, an awareness of the world around them and provide them with the access to information and knowledge which will benefit them throughout their lives.
- To provide children with books that reflect themselves and their cultures.