St Cuthbert’s RC Primary School
Teaching and Learning of Reading
Reading Skills
Ensure teaching and learning enables children to develop the skills needed to achieve end of year
expectations as outlined in new curriculum/new assessments.
Word Recognition
 Decoding ,fluency, accuracy, stamina, expression and enjoyment
Comprehensive focus
 Develop range of comprehension skills so that they can read and make a written response to a
range of texts/question types (as illustrated in formal reading assessments.)
Children need to be familiar with the comprehension question formats of formal assessments and
understand how to answer these questions. Risings Progress in Reading tests have been utilised
for this reason.
Planning / Recording Outcomes
Allow 30 minutes per day for reading.
Develop a carousel of activities / timetable
School Pupil Tracker must be updated at least every fortnight.
Activities
Adult-led sessions must have a clear outcome, linking to the Curriculum 2014 skills.
Every reading lesson should begin with children reading their reading books
This will allow you to monitor who has and has not brought their reading books back and provide further
opportunity for reading for pleasure. Adults must monitor that children are returning their books
EVERYDAY Class teachers must speak to parents of children that do not return their books every day.
1. Home Reading Books
 One reading lesson a week should be used to change home reading books
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Individual reading record to be completed for/by every child every week
Date
Level /Book Band
Book Title
Comment
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There should be a high expectation that all children:
Read every day at home/at school
Bring their books back to school every day
Change their book at least every week within the daily reading time independently/ with an adult
Choose to read a range of texts at their level.
2. Reading for pleasure, fluency and practice
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Read books at/beyond appropriate book band level
Use of range resources- book banded boxes/Library
Record books read/reading – Completion of individual reading record
Monitoring children’s progress in fluency
Personal Response to text- e.g. Book Reviews
Listening to books read aloud/CD player/Computer
Retell stories with actions/pictures/props
Reading aloud /perform /present texts
Listening to books read aloud/CD player/Computer
Retell /perform /present texts
3. Reading Comprehension (Teach /Practice/Apply)
Whole class explicit teaching/learning of Comprehension skills
Read and written response to a range of texts/question types
Use of a range of resources
 Developing Comprehension skills (NEW)
 Guided Reading books/activities
 Previous assessments-Rising Stars/PIRA/ Test Base
 Comprehension schemes e.g. SRA, Cracking Comprehension, Schofield and Sims, Scholastic
 Differentiated activities- journals/worksheets/workbooks
 Marking/corrections within the lesson
 Record of learning outcomes on SPTO
4. Assessment of Reading Skills x 1 lesson
Past PIRA papers
Rising Stars Progress Tests
Test Base Questions
These activities can be organised in a variety of ways
Whole class- same learning outcome/activity
Groups- different learning outcomes/activities
Independent / Adult Led
Record of Teaching/Learning- Reading Journals/Files
To be completed daily by the children
 Individual Reading Record-(In front of reading Journal) List of books read
 Reading Journal-Date/Learning Outcome/Title of Text/ Activity
 Home Reading Record –at least once a week
Reading Aloud
Adults should read aloud to children EVERYDAY using a text by a good author.
Teachers must promote the reading of ‘CLASSICS’.
Individual Reading
Children who do not read at home should be read with by an adult several times a week,.
This MUST be recorded every session. This is an intervention and should be on their intervention record.
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Assessment
Formative Assessment
Word Reading :
Monitoring- (1.1 /group) decoding, fluency, accuracy, stamina, book band/level /books read,
Phoneme/word recognition checklist
Reading Comprehension:
Weekly Activities in reading journals
Fortnightly - Ensure SPTO is updated
Summative Assessment
Rising Stars Progress Tests half-termly
PIRA reading tests every term
Following the reading assessments
 Ensure all children are on the correct book band level/book
 That SPTO entries are accurate
 Enter Teacher Assessment judgements for each child on SPTO
Children should be able to read the text with fluency accuracy and understanding appropriate to
that level.
Most children should move a book band/level at least every term.