How do we IMPLEMENT reading?

Learning to read is one of the most important things your child will ever learn. It underpins everything else, so we put as much energy as we possibly can into making sure that every single child learns to read as quickly as possible. We also want your child to develop a real love of reading and to want to read for themselves. This is why we work hard to make sure children develop a love of books as well as simply learning to read.

Highly Engaging Texts

At Osmaston CE (VC) Primary School we ensure we use high quality texts both in Reading, Writing and across the broader curriculum. These texts allow different genres to be explored, current global events to be discussed and develops cultural capital through inspirational key people in society. Key authors will also be covered. 

Storytime

Teachers regularly read everyday with children so pupils get to know and love all sorts of stories, poetry and information books.  

• In Classes 1, 2 and 3, story time is daily using the ‘Six Stories to Help Us Grow’ approach. These are books that are read repeatedly to the children so they begin to learn stories from memory and can comprehend verbally the reading domains.
• In Classes 4 and 5, story time is daily. This is the reading of their class novel, to ensure longer texts are read in their entirety and to support authors craft. This is in addition to other high-quality texts that complement children’s learning.

This is in addition to the books that they bring home.  This helps to extend children’s vocabulary and comprehension, as well as supporting their writing. At Osmaston CE (VC) Primary School, vocabulary and language development is at the heart of all we do. 

All classrooms have attractive displays of books where the children can access a small group of appropriate books, both fiction and non-fiction to help embed their love of books, stories and reading.

Word Recognition and Vocabulary

At Osmaston CE (VC) Primary School, key vocabulary is planned for in all subjects, across the entire curriculum. This is to ensure pupils understand the key concepts before deepening their understanding. From Reception to Year 6, vocabulary is present in all learning activities, and this is repeated and recapped through spaced repetition to check pupils understand and can apply this language and vocabulary to new concepts. 

Reading Skills (Domains of the National Curriculum)

At Osmaston CE (VC) Primary School, we timetable focused reading skill lessons daily from Reception to Year 6. We use VIPERS as the approach to teach the reading domains (Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explain, Retrieve and Summarise). 

In Reception, Year 1 and the start of Year 2 reading skills are taught through the Phonics into Reading and Reading into Spelling lessons. This allows pupils to access well matched books to the current phonemes (sounds) and graphemes (letters) being taught. At the beginning of the week these books will be challenging but over the week they will become more fluent and verbal comprehension will be explored in line with the VIPER approach of questioning. We have clear progression of VIPER questions and skills linked to the reading domains. Click here to find out more: Literacy Shed Plus - Literacy Shed Plus - Teaching Resources Made Easy