Reading
At St Michael’s First School we aim to guide your child to understand themselves and others better. Literature plays a key role in this development as an individual because it enables them to acquire knowledge, build on what they already know and to participating fully as a member of society. It is our duty as a school to work with you and your child to ensure this journey and goal is achievable, exciting and rewarding.
The pupils move through levelled books during their time in reception to year 4.
Although reading is an exciting journey rather than a race, we do celebrate when pupils make progress in their reading and share this news with you. We use Reading Record books to communicate regularly between home and school building on the child’s next steps in their reading.
At St Michael’s First School we teach reading in two parts:
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word reading
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comprehension (both listening and reading)
Our teaching focuses on developing pupils’ competence in both skills because different kinds of teaching are needed for each.
In Year One, children will complete a Phonics Screening Test. This is a statutory test set by the Government and delivered to all children across the United Kingdom in the same week by a qualified teacher. Children are given 20 words and 20 pseudo‐words (nonsense eg thand, strom) made up of the 44 sounds children learn. The results of these tests are published nationally and highlighted to parents at the end of the academic year. Please look at the Year 1 page
The reading scheme that has been developed at St Michael’s First School, contains a range of books, including phonically decodeable books, Project X, and colour banded books including Oxford Reading Tree. These books are closely matched to ensure that children’s reading improves at an appropriate developmental level. Your child’s teacher will assess your child’s reading and match their reading books in accordance to this.
At St Michael’s Church of England First School we are always looking for ways to encourage our children to read more. The Accelerated Reader programme has certainly succeeded in enthusing the children! Accelerated Reader forms a key part of our reading programme from Year 2 onwards.
Appropriate challenge
Pupils develop reading skills most effectively when they read appropriately challenging books – difficult enough to keep them engaged but not so difficult that they become frustrated.
When your child has read a book, he/she can take an Accelerated Reader quiz by logging in at school. Children take quizzes completely independently and with no help. They must read and answer the questions by themselves. They get immediate feedback. Children respond to regular feedback and are motivated to make progress with their reading skills.Reading volunteers pamphlet.
Reading Diary Comments
Listed below are some comments which may help you when writing in the Reading Record to describe how your child has read to you at home. The more information that you can provide in your child’s Reading Record, the more we can help your child in class!
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