Reading at Hill View Primary Academy
Reading allows us to be transported from our own world to another. Between the pages of a book, we can become immersed in the lives of fictional characters and learn about a culture entirely different from our own. We can also learn new words and phrases, experience a range of emotions, and acquire skills and knowledge.
Because of the learning potential, the effects of reading on child development are vast and multiple studies have highlighted its benefits. As such, teachers and parents are in a great position to ensure reading is a key part of children’s daily routine.
Reading at Hill View is integrated through our curriculum where children are immersed in a wide range of texts and use transferable skills in other areas of their learning. At Hill View we encourage children to read for pleasure, because we know that this has many benefits on a child’s education, social and cognitive development, their wellbeing, and their mental health.
Intent:
‘To raise the profile of reading across the school with children speaking confidently about it.’
- For children to have secure phonic knowledge and apply phonic strategies to improve their decoding and fluency.
- All children to be given opportunities to read daily, beyond phonics lessons.
- Children to develop fluency, stamina and vocabulary.
- All pupils to be exposed to a wide range of high quality texts including non-fiction and classic texts.
- ALL pupils to express positive attitudes to reading.
- Develop community links, and encourage parents to support reading engagement at home.
- Reading overview for Hill View 2022-2023
Reading at Hill View EYFS and lower KS1
Reading at Hill View KS1 KS2
Please click on the following links to access your child’s recommended reading list:
Please Click on the images below to find out more about Read Write Inc and Phonics Screening
Our children experience reading in many different ways as they move around the school. Such as;
- Reading Assemblies
- Library Visits/New Library.
- Author Visits
- Book Fair
- World Book Day
- Book Swaps
- Whole school book projects
- Dorset Reading partners
- Recommended Reads.
- Librarians/ Reading Ambassadors.
for more information please click on this link to access our Whole school reading progression overview
EYFS &KS1
Reading Roles takes familiar job titles and assigns them to reading strategies and skills thus giving children an easy-to-refer-to system for being more deliberate with their thinking during reading, with the ultimate goal of being able to comprehend texts. Alongside the job title (or role) there is a symbol which can be used as a further way to prompt certain kinds of thinking – some children may find these easier to remember.
We use the following methods to help us assess and track the progress of our pupils:
- Baseline Assessments.
- Nuffield Early Language Assessments
- 1:1 reading with an adult.
- RWI assessments
- Phonics Screening
- PIRA
- SATS
Provision and resources
- RWI books – In school
- RWI books – Book bag books
- Library Books
- Year Group Books – Recommended Reads.
- Reading Records
- Book corners
- Recommended Reads lists
KS2
Priorities to develop (Implementation- next steps)
- Consistent use of reading records across school.
- Can pupils talk about reading across the school?
- Ensure Reading Focus in all reading assemblies
- Utilising new library – Looking into other ways of involving parents/Grandparents.
Further opportunities for reading/writing workshops with authors and illustrators
Boom Reader
We are introducing new digital reading records across the school to support our quest to make reading fun and enjoyable.
There is lots of information from the website and from the app that can be downloaded to support parents with children reading at home or indeed children reading to themselves.
Parents will be given slips with their child’s log in details.
Please find the parent guide below and there is much more support for parents from the website: