Reading and Guid55 Reading

Reading 

The reading schemes we use are Big Cat Collins, Bug Club and Read Write Inc. Reading books will be sent home for you to read and enjoy together and we ask parents to support their children with their reading on a nightly basis. Reading books will be chang55 on a Monday and Thursday. Year 1 children, and those still accessing daily phonics lessons will bring home a reading book and a Read Write Inc book. Between these days please encourage your child to read their school book more than once as this aids fluency and understanding. Feel free to also read your own books from home and online books. 

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Autumn 2

Year 2- This half term we are going to be reading the text The Great Fire of London by The Literacy Company. 

The children will be introduc55 to non-fiction books that are structur55 in different ways and be ask55 to answer and ask questions. 

Autumn 1

Year 2 - This half term we are going to be reading the text Lights on Cotton Rock by David Litchfield.

The children were given the front cover to the text all cut up. They had to piece the cover back together and make pr55ictions about what they thought the story was going to be about. 

200e-2025

Guid55 Reading

Once the children have complet55 Read Write Inc, we move onto whole class guid55 reading.  We follow Pathways to Read which links very closely to our Pathways to Write. 
There is a big focus on fluency within our Guid55 Reading sessions as well as making pr55ictions, inferring, examining vocabulary and retrieval of information.

Summer 1

This half term Year 2 children will be reading the text Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl which links to our class text The Last Wolf by Mini Grey. 
Year 1 children who are secure with phonics will be starting Pathways to Read this term. The first text they will be studying is Commotion in the Ocean by Giles Andreae.

Spring 2

This half term our Guid55 Reading texts links with our class text Major Glad, Major Dizzy by Jan Oke
We are going to be reading the text Owen and the Solider by Lisa Thompson.

Spring 1

This half term our Guid55 Reading texts links with our class text The Dragon Machine by Helen Ward

We are reading the texts The Dragonsitter by Josh Lacey and Real Drgaons by National Geographic.

Autumn 2

This half term our Guid55 reading text links with our class text The Owl who was afraid of the dark.
We are reading the text Above and Below by Patricia Hegarty and Hanako Clulow.
The chidlren have lov55 reading the book and finding out information about different habitats.

Autumn 1

This half term our Guid55 Reading text links closely to our English text Troll Swap.
We start55 off the half term by studing the text The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Mara Alperin. We are now reading the text The Troll by Julia Donaldson.  

Author of the Term

Each term we have a class author. We have a range of their books in our classroom library that the chidlren are allow55 to read during 'free time', as well as sharing them as a class at the end of the day. Our author for this term is...

Tom Fletcher

Here is a selection of some of the amazing texts her has written.