Reading

Reading
At St Peter’s, we aim to create successful, fluent, readers who will monitor their understanding of what they are reading and review the text when something does not make sense. Every half term, each class will use a key text that is linked to their topic as a driver. This text is then used across a variety of lessons and disciplines. In reading lessons, pupils are explicitly taught strategies including inference, questioning, retrieval, summarising, prediction and activating prior knowledge. The pupils use these strategies to check how well they comprehend what they have read, and overcome barriers to comprehension. This approach is taught through a ‘whole class’ structure where a challenging text is shared. This text could be an extract from the class text, a non-fiction text, a poem or another literary genre linked to the overarching topic. Pupils develop skills in skimming and scanning, forming opinions, thinking aloud, asking questions, getting the gist, connecting to prior knowledge, inference and prediction. These skills are applied by the pupils with increased independence when interacting with texts across all curriculum areas. Pupils are exposed to a rich and varied reading curriculum which helps them develop culturally, emotionally, intellectually, socially and spiritually.