We want all children to develop a love of reading whilst at Severnbanks Primary School.

Learning to read is about listening and understanding as well as working out what is printed on a page. We believe in the importance of children being read to; through hearing stories, children are exposed to a wide range of words. All classes have key texts that are read to them which link in with their terms focus which exposes children to language and classic stories which they may find too challenging to read independently. We are part of the Reading Teachers = Reading Pupils project through Cheltenham Literary Festival where new books are introduced to staff.

Cracking Comprehension and Tony Whatmuff strategies for reading comprehension is  supplemented with VIPERS at KS2 and Guided Reading at KS1 focus on the skills of comprehension, through identifying new vocabulary, to understanding the meaning of the written text and making links into existing knowledge and other texts.

Teachers share a variety of written material regularly with the children, fiction and non-fiction, stories, reports, diaries and poems; but not forgetting the importance that picture books can play.

We have a home-school reading system, which requests that children read a book at the appropriate level for them. In EYFS and Key Stage 1, children read books matched to their phonic phase in order to read and sounds that they have been taught. This then progresses to include tricky, high frequency and common exception words so that children are exposed to reading patterns, repetition and sight reading giving them a thorough grounding in fundamental reading skills. At KS2 children Project X provides a structured reading scheme and then children follow ‘book bandings’ ensuring they are making progress.

Alongside this, we visit the Cheltenham Literary Festival to attend author workshops, have visiting authors, poets, theatres, visiting books fairs and celebrate Roald Dahl Day and World Book Day.

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Year group / Term	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Starlets	Nursery Rhyme focus   We’re going on a bear hunt	Goldilocks and the three bears   Polar Bear, Polar Bear	Dear Zoo   Handa’s Noisy Night	Oliver’s Vegetables   The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Maisy goes on a plane   A duck in a truck	Sandcastle   Sharing a Shell
EYFS	Nursery Rhyme focus   Farmer Duck	Owl Babies Stick Man	Handa’s Surprise    Anansi the spider	Jack and the Beanstalk   Mr Wolf’s pancakes	The Train Ride    Whatever Next	Lucy and Tom at the Seaside   Rainbow Fish
Year 1	I love my dinosaur   Dear Dinosaur   Dinosaur poetry	Mrs. Armitage on Wheels   Mrs. Armitage the Queen of the road   The Most Magnificent Things   Firework poetry	Non fiction- Usborne Famous lives for young readers, Florence Nightingale	The Paper Bag Princess Robert Munsch & Michael Martchenko   Non fiction books	Lost and found by Oliver Jeffers   Animal riddles Non fiction books about penguins	Oliver’s Fruit Salad and Oliver’s vegetables by Vivian French
Year 2	Hot Air   The Blue Balloon   Miranda the Explorer	Non fiction books about the Wright Brothers   Q Pootle 5	If I were a kid on the Titanic   Non fiction books about the Titanic	Toby and the Great Fire of London   Non fiction books about the GFoL	Pirates Ahoy!     The Little Mermaid	The Secret Garden
Year 3	The Night Gardener	Lights on Cotton Rock	Stone Age Boy	The Iron Man	Egyptian Cinderella	Charlotte’s Web
Year 4	The Tin Forest	The Wild Robot	The Boy who Biked the World	Who let the Gods out?	Tiger Tiger	The Firemaker's Daughter
Year 5	Arthur and the Golden Rope	Cosmic	When the Mountains roared	The Viewer	London Eye Mystery	The London Eye Mystery
Year 6	Pig Heart Boy	Shackleton’s Journey	Treason	Street Child	Chinese Cinderella	My Secret War Diary

 

 

 Every year we celebrate World Book Day. For 2024, every child in school was given a lollipop stick to decorate as their favourite book character. We received some very creative characters.

        

 

This year we chose to celebrate poetry as part of WBD. Every class learnt a poem to recite in our whole school assembly, we were very excited to hear poems being recited and enjoyed by all.