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Overview
At Lavender we foster a love of reading and strive for all children to become lifelong readers with high levels of comprehension, understanding and most importantly a love of reading. All children visit our well-stocked Library weekly, as well as enjoying whole class reads at the end of each day. Texts are selected with the children’s likes and passions in mind to engage the children. We encourage children to talk about the texts they read in their spare time and we are constantly updating our Library to reflect the children’s recommendations. We all look forward to Friday afternoons when the whole school take part in Drop Everything and Read.
Daily Reading Lessons
Our daily Reading lessons are designed to help pupils learn and practise reading comprehension skills while also practising their reading fluency. During these sessions, the children are exposed to a variety of different text genres and writing styles. All of the comprehension skills we practise are based on the National Curriculum 2016 Reading Test Framework ‘content domains’ (as shown in the tables below).
To make these skills more accessible to the children, they are broken down as the following ‘vipers’ skills:
Fluency is taught using a variety of different reading models such as choral reading (when the whole class read a passage aloud at the same time), paired reading (when the children read aloud to their partner) and echo reading (when the teacher reads words and sentences and the children repeat aloud using the same expression, pace and intonation). We want our children to leave Lavender being fluent readers who feel confident to read aloud to an audience and by practising fluency daily.
Our fluency checklist is referred to regularly and children are encouraged to practise their reading fluency in all areas of learning from Reading and Writing to Mathematics and PSHE.
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