Through the teaching of Reading we aim to:

• Ensure that all children have the chance to follow an enriched curriculum by getting them reading early: learning to read = reading to learn!

• Provide children with a range of strategies they can draw upon when decoding text

• Build on the children’s language experiences and early reading skills

• Encourage the transition from inexperienced readers to independent readers who read a variety of texts for different purposes

• Encourage a high awareness of audience and the ability to adapt their language and style for different purposes/genres and audiences

• Provide equal opportunities for all children to achieve success when reading

• Create fluent readers with a genuine love of reading and an appreciation of its value, so that the children choose to read for pleasure and are able to follow personal interests and use their research skills to extend their knowledge and understand of the world around them

Reading for pleasure

Reading for pleasure has been defined by the National Literacy Trust as “reading that we do of our own free will, anticipating the satisfaction that we will get from the act of reading. It also refers to reading that having begun at someone else’s request we continue because we are interested in it” (Clark and Rumbold, National Literacy Trust, 2006).

At Silver End, we provide our children with the opportunity to read for pleasure as often as possible. From Early Years, where children enjoy using reading areas to sit and share books or use them as part of role play activities to children in Year 6 who enjoy relaxing in the reading corner and performing poetry to the class.