At Godmanchester Bridge Academy, we follow and adapt the scheme of work from ‘The Teach Hub’ to create our reading curriculum. We have chosen this approach as it focuses on teaching children unfamiliar vocabulary, develops their fluency and their comprehension.
Specifically, our aims for the teaching and learning of reading are as follows:
- To nurture a culture where children love to read and enjoy reading at any stage of their reading journey.
- To ensure that our children receive high quality Phonics teaching (Read Write Inc) every day in EYFS and KS1. This progressive approach ensures that our children are well placed to read and spell words with fluency and confidence.
- To enable children to read easily, fluently and with the right expression, to have a good understanding of what they read, develop their love of reading so that they read for
pleasure as well as for information and to acquire a wide vocabulary. - To encourage enjoyment by displaying high quality texts.
- To make links between what they have read and how they can use what they have read in their writing.
- To use the skills and knowledge learnt in an English lesson across the curriculum.
- Children learn who they are as a reader. This means they will know what they enjoy reading but they will also take risks and try new texts.
- Every child is read to each day by the class teacher.
- Children develop and use strategies that help them when they are stuck.
- Share a mixture of fiction, non-fiction and poetry with the children through shared reading and guided reading sessions.
- Our children will leave school being able to recommend books to others, seek out books they wish to read and discuss them with confidence.
- We want the children to see themselves in the books that are read to them in class.
The curriculum overview is available to download to the left of this page.