Vision for Reading Learning

INTENT

​At Morda reading is at the heart of the whole curriculum. We want all our pupils to become confident and reflective readers and develop a life-long love of reading. From the foundation stage onwards, Morda pupils are introduced to engaging high quality story, poem and non-fiction books which they share with their teachers and other adults in school and at home. 

IMPLEMENTATION 

Early talk is the critical first port of call on children’s Reading journey. By sharing wonderful stories from brilliant authors from day one at Morda, we are teaching children to imagine: especially those pupils with speech and language issues or other disadvantages.

Through carefully sequenced phonics and reading teaching and regular reading practice, pupils work to become fluent and expressive readers.  Pupils successfully follow the Read, Write Inc phonics and reading scheme as soon as they start with us.  Pupils begin by learning the phonetical sounds forming the basis of decoding words and sentences.  In Guided Reading and Reading Mastery lessons pupils learn the skills to reflect on their reading. They develop comprehension, inference and evaluation skills and begin to analyse writer techniques. Pupils then use this knowledge to improve their writing.

Pupils are introduced to attractive engaging age appropriate reading books, as well as poetry, plays and non-fiction texts, which they use to aid their wider learning. They are guided and challenged in their choice of  reading books and encouraged to read a wide range of genres, classic and modern texts. Books are chosen to represent a variety of cultures. The school’s book banding system helps pupils choose appropriately levelled books and our bookshelves are well stocked with engaging picture and information books for pupils’ enjoyment and pleasure.

SEND children in the school are given the bespoke support they need to reach their individual targets (catch up phonics, dyslexia tutoring and 1-1 additional reading ).

IMPACT 

As we believe that reading is key to all learning, the impact of our reading curriculum goes beyond the result of statutory assessments. Children have the opportunity to enter the wide and varied magical worlds that reading opens up to them. As they develop their own interest in books, a deep love of literature across a range of genres, cultures and styles is enhanced.

Through the teaching of systematic phonics and reading enquiry, our aim is for children to become fluent and confident readers who can apply their knowledge and experience to a range of texts through the Key Stage 2 curriculum.

As a Year 6 reader, transition into secondary school, we aspire that children are fluent, confident and able readers, who can access a range of texts for pleasure and enjoyment, as well as use their reading skills to unlock learning and all areas of the curriculum. We firmly believe that reading is the key to all learning.

At Morda we work hard to ensure: parents and carers will have a good understanding of how they can support reading at home, and contribute regularly to home-school records; There will be no significant gaps in the progress of different groups of pupils (e.g. disadvantaged vs non-disadvantaged) and all children  make good progress from their starting points.

Our pupils leave Morda influenced and inspired by the books they have read with the hunger to read more. 

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AUTUMN 2023 LIBRARY 

Roses class enjoyed taking part in a library scavenger hunt today, looking for books from different genres, a range of authors and topics as well as newspapers and comics. They were introduced to the Dewey Decimal Classification system and were able to locate non-fiction books using alphabetical order to find the relevant number for the topic.

Pupils were excited to find books that interested them, bringing back to class books on space, sharks and sport and they have gained greater confidence in independently choosing books from the library.

Daffodils and Shamrocks are looking forward to taking part in the library scavenger hunt soon!

Mrs H Jones - Morda Primary School Reading Champion 

SUMMER OUT DOOR RELAX READ 

WORLD BOOK DAY BOOK BLAST! MARCH 2023

To celebrate World Book Day we held an event in the library, with pupils in years 5 and 6 choosing a book to share with the pupils in Bluebells Class. After practising reading the books and thinking of ways to involve the younger pupils in the books, the pupils from Shamrocks and Roses class shared their books with confidence and enthusiasm. Bluebells Class enjoyed being read to in the library and they all want to do this again! The school governors, Mrs Leach and Mrs Shaw, came in to see the event and to help. Well done to everyone involved!

Mrs H. Jones (Morda Book Champion).