English - Reading and Phonics
Our English curriculum combines the National Curriculum with our whole-school termly topics.
Reading allows our pupils to access the world. We value reading skills greatly at Copmanthorpe and embed reading within everything we do.
Aims
- Develop an intrinsic love of reading, through engaging with a wide range of different types of material, including challenging and substantial texts.
- Ensure that children read independently, fluently and with good understanding for both pleasure and academic success.
- Acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language.
Our approach
Throughout each term, we immerse children in our whole-school topics through reading a wide range of texts. In addition, we have both small, guided reading groups and whole-class reading sessions to develop skills such as fluency, retrieval, inference, prediction and to broaden vocabulary.
