Reading

At Childwall Valley Primary School reading is at the heart of our curriculum and we recognise that it underpins all subjects. Our aim is to ensure our pupils leave us as skilled and motivated readers with a love of reading. We are committed to ensuring all our pupils become successful readers who can confidently discuss the books they have enjoyed. To complement our writing scheme, we follow the Ready Steady Read Together curriculum which allows us to unify our reading and writing.

 
English Policy
English Curriculum Statement
Reading Spine - Nursery
Reading Spine - Reception
Reading Spine - Year 1
Reading Spine - Year 2
Reading Spine - Year 3
Reading Spine - Year 4
Reading Spine - Year 5
Reading Spine - Year 6


Early Reading

Learning to read is the most important thing your child will learn at our school.  Everything else depends on it, so we put as much energy as we possibly can into making sure that every single child learns to read as quickly as possible.  We want your child to love reading – and to want to read for themselves.  This is why we put our efforts into making sure they develop a love of books as well as simply learning to read.

At Childwall Valley  Primary School, we follow the  Read Write Inc. phonics scheme. Children are grouped according to their ability across Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 to ensure that teaching is suited to their level. Phonics in Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 takes place on a daily basis and in Key Stage 2 where applicable. Upon completion of the Read Write Inc phonics scheme, children will move onto our Ready Steady Read Together scheme which ensures they continue to progress in their reading.

  • Read Write Inc

    To find out more about Read Write Inc at Childwall Valley Primary School then follow this link.

    Read Write Inc

  • EYFS

    Our Early Reading begins in our fabulous Early Years. This page will tell you all you need to know about the amazing work that our EYFS staff do there.

    EYFS

  • Oxford Reading Owl

    Oxford Owl has many Read Write Inc resources including online Read Write Inc books.

    Oxford Owl

Our Reading Scheme

At Childwall Valley Primary School once children have completed the Read Write Inc scheme they will move onto the Oxford Reading Tree programme for our home reading.

Oxford reading tree programme enables our children to continue this learning outside the classroom. As the UK’s most successful reading scheme, Oxford Reading Tree is currently used in over 80% of primary schools and has helped millions of children from all over the world learn to read and love to read.

All reading schemes have a careful structure designed to support the teaching in class and to ensure that when a child takes a book home they can read it successfully, build confidence and make progress. We assess all our pupils using PM Benchmarking and this allows us to ensure our pupils have a book perfectly matched to their reading ability.

Each book in the scheme is carefully banded. Book bands are used across Oxford reading schemes to indicate the reading level of each book. . You will see our Oxford 'levels' alongside book band colours on the back of each Oxford Reading Tree book. (These are found on the back of the books themselves). Our Book Banding Chart also matches these against the PM Benchmarking assessment tool that we use.

Reading Standards