{"id":3023,"date":"2026-01-27T15:46:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cc60bed6d139d48b6a5161293cff1291-16758.sites.k-hosting.co.uk\/?page_id=3023"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:53:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:53:47","slug":"reading-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/amberleyprimary.co.uk\/site\/curriculum\/curriculum-subject-pages\/subject-english\/reading-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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At Amberley our aim is to equip all of our children with the skills needed to become independent, fluent and passionate readers. As detailed in our overall curriculum intent, the teaching of reading at\u00a0Amberley\u00a0embraces all three of our core values:\u00a0nurturing,\u00a0innovation and aspiration. By focusing on these three key priorities at the heart of our curriculum, we believe our children will be ready to successfully meet the challenges of the next stage of their education. We strive to enable every child, regardless of their background, needs or abilities, to become a good reader and we aim to provide rich, engaging experiences of reading that inspire the child to become passionate lifelong readers.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The school has clear expectations of pupils\u2019 phonics progress term-by-term, from Nursery to Year 2, and the school\u2019s ‘Read Write Inc.’ phonics programme aligns consistently with these expectations. Regular and accurate assessment continually informs teaching of phonics, comprehension and fluency to ensure all children make rapid progress. The sequence of reading books is matched closely to the school’s phonics programme and, until children reach the end of the phonics programme, they take home a phonetically decodable book. This will be based on sounds children have been previously taught, which allows them the opportunity to continually revise prior learning and continue to consolidate sounds.<\/p>

At Amberley, we know how important parental involvement is to a child\u2019s reading education and therefore we aim to regularly engage parents through a variety of reading based workshops, including phonics and guided\u00a0reading. We also endeavour to promote reading to parents through annual reading challenges which involves parents reading regularly with their children and sharing their reading experiences via Twitter and through home-school tasks.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Whole class reading is delivered five times per week in KS2 and is worked towards in Year 2, following successful completion of the ‘Read Write Inc.’ phonics programme. These reading sessions centre on vocabulary rich and engaging texts from a variety of genres. Children pick apart texts using a range of \u2018reading strategies\u2019 to gain a true understanding of the author\u2019s intent, structure of the text, themes within a text and vocabulary. The ‘reading strategies’ that children are taught underpin the strands of the National Curriculum for reading.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Children who are working within the school\u2019s reading scheme also read 1:1 a minimum of once per week with a teacher or skilled teaching assistant.\u00a0Home-school reading records allow conversations between parents and teachers to take place around reading and children\u2019s reading achievements.\u00a0For pupils who have completed the school reading scheme choose books initially from a carefully selected, age appropriate range of fiction and non-fiction texts which are checked regularly for pupil understanding of text, vocabulary and fluency of decoding words. Once teachers are confident that children are able to select their own texts, children in UKS2 \u2018check in\u2019 and \u2018check out\u2019 their book choices using either a QR based scanning and logging scheme or a via their class teacher. Teachers\u00a0regularly monitor children’s text\u00a0choices to enable them to\u00a0assess pupil’s reading stamina, current interests\u00a0in texts and comprehension.\u00a0<\/p>

Children begin their phonics journey\u00a0in Nursery by focusing on the \u2018seven aspects\u2019 of \u2018Phase 1\u2019 taken from the Letters and Sounds documentation; which ranges from hearing sounds in the environment to listening and remembering sounds as well as talking about sounds. Following the Read, Write, Inc. scheme, formal daily phonics lessons are carried out from Reception to Year 2. The teaching of sounds is progressive throughout EYFS and KS1 and children’s sound knowledge is regularly checked through ongoing formative teacher assessments and well-matched\u00a0summative\u00a0assessments. The teaching of specific phonemes and grapheme representations begins in Reception, where children begin by\u00a0recognising single sounds,\u00a0how to say them and how to form them. As children progress throughout Reception and KS1, the teaching, application and consolidation of consonant and vowel digraphs and trigraphs takes place in the form of both reading and writing activities. In KS2, phonics intervention is provided in small groups where appropriate, in addition to BRP (Boosting Reading@Primary), to further support children with reading skills.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

At Amberley, we strive to encourage a love of reading in all of our learners, regardless of their background. We provide a range of opportunities to nourish and enrich enthusiasm for reading with the aim of all children becoming lifelong, passionate readers. Detailed below are some of the ways in which we aim to embed such passion.<\/p>

We have constructed a reading shack within the outdoor learning environment at Amberley, which provides pupils with the opportunity and freedom to read in their own time within the school day, for example during break or lunchtime.<\/p>

In addition to this, our wonderful ‘Amberley Reading Ambassadors’ from UKS2 read with some of our Year 2 children weekly. This encourages peer-to-peer book talk, as well as giving our younger children a fantastic reading role model.\u00a0<\/p>

At Amberley, we also take part in annual author visits where children are the given the opportunity to engage in a workshop with a range of authors who specialise in current children\u2019s literature. Many children take this opportunity to buy the books and have them signed by the author. We believe that such experiences connect learned in the classroom with the wider world and increase and improve pupils motivation to read and write.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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We are fortunate enough at Amberley to have our local library within walking distance and therefore seize this opportunity for our children to visit once per half term, meaning we have continued access to new and diverse texts for children to enjoy!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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We are fortunate enough at Amberley to have our local library within walking distance and therefore seize this opportunity for our children to visit once per half term, meaning we have continued access to new and diverse texts for children to enjoy!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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After children complete the phonics scheme, a progressive selection of fiction and non-fiction\u00a0books have been carefully selected to support the\u00a0ongoing development of children’s fluency and comprehension skills.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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We feel it is important that we listen to the feedback of our children at Amberley and they are very positive about their reading lessons.<\/p>

A child from lower Key Stage 2 exclaimed…<\/p>

\u201cWe all enjoy it…you never know what\u2019s coming next, it\u2019s so exciting!\u201d<\/p>

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\u201cI like doing the quizzes and predicting what\u2019s going to happen next.\u201d<\/p>

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\u201cAfter reading books in whole class reading, I\u2019ve started to read more at home. If you\u2019re stressed, it calms you.”<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Teaching and support staff use a wide range of formative assessment tools during the lesson to judge the impact that the teaching is having on children\u2019s learning. To further measure the impact of reading teaching of reading and learning we also deliver summative assessments at the end of each term. This is a helpful tool to measure how deep the children have embedded the strands of reading when it is assessed out of context and at a later date to the initial teacher input. Question level analysis (QLA) is then completed of these tests to measure this impact and help inform planning for the next term. From this QLA, children are identified where learning of the strands of reading has not been fully embedded. These children are then grouped based on their needs and attend interventions based on the strands they have found challenging.<\/p>

It is vital that measuring the impact of our teaching of reading closely informs our planning going forward, individualising our curriculum to meet the needs of all children.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Curriculum Intent At Amberley our aim is to equip all of our children with the skills needed to become independent, fluent and passionate readers. As detailed in our overall curriculum intent, the teaching of reading at\u00a0Amberley\u00a0embraces all three of our core values:\u00a0nurturing,\u00a0innovation and aspiration. By focusing on these three key priorities at the heart of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2910,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3023","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amberleyprimary.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amberleyprimary.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amberleyprimary.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amberleyprimary.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amberleyprimary.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3023"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/amberleyprimary.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5981,"href":"https:\/\/amberleyprimary.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3023\/revisions\/5981"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amberleyprimary.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amberleyprimary.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}