READING
at The Winterton Federation

Reading for Pleasure

Reading is the key to all learning; therefore, we foster a love of books at The Winterton Federation. In each year group, children are given daily opportunities to read for pleasure e.g. during guided reading time, everybody stop, drop and read, library sessions and playground books. Books have been purchased in response to children’s interests and a range of text types are available e.g. comics, graphic novels, poetry, fiction and non-fiction. In Years 1 to 6, comprehension sessions are carried out twice a week. A combination of high-quality picture books, texts, poetry and non-fiction texts are utilised during these sessions to develop a range of comprehension skills. Cross-curricular texts are frequently utilised alongside texts for themed weeks such as: mental health, black history, faith week, earth day and anti-bullying. During comprehension lessons, children are encouraged to approach texts in a variety of ways, incorporating a range of learning styles. These approaches include: the use of a variety of graphic organisers, picture response/stimuli, drama, speaking and listening, as well as formal responses incorporating ranging question types. Higher order questioning techniques are an integral part of all lessons, including guided reading sessions. In Key Stage 1 a class novel is read every day after lunch).