We LOVE reading at Werrington Primary School as we believe it is a gateway to progress in all areas of the curriculum! It also opens up a fantastic imaginary world to enter and explore! Each class encourages reading at all ages and all children are encouraged to read with an adult, individually or in peer groups each week. 

To ensure that children develop reading skills that allows them to be fluent readers we have selected the CUSP Reading Curriculum because it is carefully structured and provides a knowledge-rich reading curriculum. The CUSP Reading Curriculum is a highly sequenced, evidence-based approach that ensures reading is explicitly taught, practised, and embedded at every stage of a child's education.

We have a fantastic selection of different class texts for each year group, where the children have their own copy to look through and read along with the class and teacher. This way, the children all experience texts that are challenging, stimulating and engaging with their peers. These texts have been chosen because of their amazing storylines, thought-provoking messages or interesting vocabulary. We read these during our English lessons or through our Whole Class Reading sessions.          

In Reception and Year 1, the children have books are phonetically decodable and link with the children's learning.  They read these alongside the chosen class text.

In addition to their classroom texts, in Year 2, the children work their way through different coloured book bands depending on their ability, fluency and the Phonics Phase that they are working at. These books will also be phonetically decodable and use appropriate sight vocabularly.

In KS2, we further support class reading by moving on to the Accelerated Reader Scheme. We have a huge variety of books (including fiction and non-fiction) across all of levels, which children can choose from. In this scheme, there is a book quiz linked to each book so that once the children have read their book they can take a book quiz to check their comprehension and recall. Books from home are also likely to be on the Accelerated Reader Scheme so if you find a book that you would love to read let your class teacher know and they can check for you!