Learning to Read,
Reading to Learn
“Children should be immersed in a recursive
reading curriculum where they are able to
explore, rehearse and revisit aspects of the key
skills, developing and deepening their
understanding each time.”
Hampshire Services
Our aim at Cupernham Juniors:
For our children to:
• Love reading!
• Have the skills to decode new words
• Be able to apply good comprehension skills in
a variety of genres
• Have the ability to infer hidden meanings that
enrich overall understanding
Why is it important?
• A fundamental life skill
• It helps to develop and exercise the mind
• Transferable skills to other aspects of life not
just reading
• It develops the imagination
• Good readers are often good writers
Key skills:
• Decoding – the ability to decipher letters and
sounds in order to blend words
• Comprehension – making meaning from text
• Retrieval – locating relevant information from
a text
• Inference – reading between the lines
Rose Report 2008
How will this be achieved?
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Reading regularly (home and school)
Listening to stories (home and school)
Focused Guided Reading sessions
1:1 Reading with a teacher/LSA
Small booster reading groups
Literacy lessons using quality texts
School Library service – independent choice
Supporting emerging readers
• Phonic groups for emerging readers
• Structured reading schemes
Sound Start, Oxford Reading Tree, Ginn
• Paired reading intervention
Lots of emphasis on confidence, fluency, expression and
understanding, i.e. getting meaning from the words –
which is what reading is all about.
• Little and Often
What might the setting
be?
Who might the
characters be?
What might the plot of
the story be?
What might the
atmosphere be?
Guided Reading in the Lower School
• Class book
• Rotation of activities to work on the key skills
Class Teacher lead task
Comprehension task supported by LSA
2 x independent tasks about the text with an
assessment focus or a SPAG task.
Guided Reading in the Upper School
• A class book
• Rotation of tasks
Teacher lead activity
Comprehension
2 x independent tasks (responding to reading)
Using evidence from a text
• SATs 1 paper of 60minutes
What you can do…
• Lower School – read everyday with your child
• Upper School – hear your child read at least once
a week but encourage them to read daily and tell
you about what they have read
• Read to your child
• Story tapes
• Use the bookmark of key questions
• Take your child to the school & local library
• Promote a positive attitude towards reading
Useful websites/Apps
Websites
www.oxfordowl.co.uk
Authors websites e.g.
www.worldofdavidwalliums.com
Apps
“Read me stories: learn to read”
“Read unlimitedly! Kids ‘n’ books”
There are many little ways to
enlarge your child’s world. Love
of books is the best of all.
–Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis