Reading at Selwyn Primary School
Curriculum intent
At Selwyn, the aim of the reading curriculum is to provide every child with the opportunity to experience a wide range of engaging, high-quality texts from which they can acquire new and varied vocabulary and to support them to become enthusiastic, fluent and motivated readers who can successfully comprehend the texts that they experience.
The texts that we share challenge our children and enable them to develop resilience alongside independence.
For our school, reading is integral to a child’s understanding and appreciation of the world around them; a platform that allows our children to see beyond what they know and enable ambitions to grow; share in cultural experiences and develop the vocabulary they need to effectively express themselves.
Providing children with the skills to decode words in order to be able to read fluently, with understanding of what they have read, begins in the nursery setting and is built upon through daily lessons from Nursery – Y6, and where necessary the provision of additionality for those children who may require it.
Reading across the curriculum enables teachers to provoke thought and curiosity within our children and for children to apply the skills learnt in reading lessons to a wide range of genres and text types.
The way in which we teach reading is outlined in the images below. We also encourage a love for reading amongst all children at our school – more information is available on this page of our website.
