Vision for Reading Learning

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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. 

 Early talk is the critical first port of call on children’s Reading journey. By sharing wonderful stories from brilliant authors from day 1 at Morda, we are teaching children to imagine: especially those pupils 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. 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 their 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 to reading for pleasure.
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We hope that pupils leave Morda influenced and inspired by the books they have read with the hunger to read more.