At Chislet we aim to foster a love of language and reading and, therefore, attach great importance to enabling our children to become fluent readers.

Phonics is taught through a highly structured programme of daily lessons across The EYFS and KS1, using a variety of fun activities. For further information, please refer to our Phonics Curriculum.

Stories are read and told daily across all of our classes. This gives the children the opportunity to hear the written word being read aloud to them and helps to embed a love of reading as well as covering all the skills of prediction, clarification, questioning and summary as well as overall comprehension of a text.

In addition to this, guided reading sessions occur multiple times throughout the week in all classes, allowing the children the opportunity to develop their comprehension skills; Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval, Sequence or Summarise (VIPERS)

Independent reading takes place on a daily basis to encourage a love of books and reading for pleasure. Children are encouraged to talk about their favourite authors and recommend stories to others. To support independent reading in KS2 we use the Accelerated Reader Programme, which helps teachers manage and monitor children’s independent reading practice.

 Please find below more details on our Reading curriculum.