“Imagine a primary school where, over seven or eight years, children are read to, enjoy, discuss and work with a core of around 80 books. These ‘essential reads’ would be a store of classics, creating a living library inside a child’s mind. This is the ‘reading spine’. Schools that have a reading spine build a common bank of stories that bind the community together.”
Pie Corbett
Redriff’s Reading Intent
Our reading curriculum
- strives to create a community of confident and competent readers
- ensures all children will learn to read regardless of barriers
- creates ambitious readers through their book choices, selecting books that will challenge their thinking and extend their interests
- fosters a love reading through stories and information texts
- represents and celebrates our diverse community and is inclusive of all.
Redriff’s Reading Implementation
Our reading curriculum
- focuses on skill development and knowledge acquisition
- is well sequenced and connected so skills and knowledge build over time
- begins with phonological awareness and ensuring children have finely tuned listening skills
- teaches phonics systematically and synthetically through the ‘Sounds Write’ phonics programme
- involves group and 1:1 reading sessions for all children and whole class shared reading lessons
- gives clear attention to the use of reading and stories to promote vocabulary acquisition
- includes the Redriff reading spine – a set of books for each year group that the children share throughout the year
- ensures no child is left behind through a clear and structured intervention programme
Redriff’s Reading Impact
Our children
- are fluent and enthusiastic about reading
- are confident to use their learnt skills to read any book that interests or excites them
- are given freedom to tell stories in their own way based on their own experiences
- are able to use their reading skills to research information and learn about the world around them
- understand the importance of expression and considers their audience when reading aloud
- take pride in their reading
- have enthusiasm for books and views them self as a reader
- see themselves in the stories they read
