Intent
At Rockmount Primary School, reading is a top priority and is a key driver for our curriculum. We aim to foster a lifelong love of reading by exposing our children to a range of literature across all areas of the curriculum.
It is our intention to ensure that by the end of their primary education, all pupils are able to read fluently and with confidence in order to support them moving to the secondary phase of their education.
We therefore intend to encourage all pupils to read widely across both fiction and non-fiction to develop: knowledge of themselves and the world in which they live; an appreciation and love of reading; knowledge across the curriculum and develop their comprehension skills. We are committed to providing vocabulary rich reading material.
It is also our intention for children to be read to every day. Teachers reading aloud, modelling appropriate use of story language and reading with expression to children, helps to improve their understanding of different story structures, to enthuse them with a love of books, inspire them as writers but most importantly, make reading fun.
We understand the importance of parents and carers in supporting their children to develop both word reading and comprehension skills, and so we want to encourage a home-school partnership which enables parents and carers to understand how to support their child’s reading at home.
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