At Holme C of of E Primary Academy, children will learn to read with fluency and understanding, providing them with the skills required to achieve a lifetime of enjoyment through reading and allow them to access the full curriculum with confidence.

Our Reading Aims:

• Encourage and nurture a love for reading and knowledge throughout the whole school
• Help children to learn to make sense not only of the world around them but also people, building social-emotional skills and of course, imagination.
• To teach new words and perspectives. To help strengthen language and sharpen sentence structure. To give a better command over language and to promote improved speaking
• To mentally stimulate, acquire knowledge and ideas, reduce stress in their lives, improve their vocabularies and memory, and develop keener analytical skills
• To avoid ‘gist’ reading allowing children to read texts that are challenging
• A methodical approach – allowing the text to be broken down to understand why specific words are used
• To encourage a broader and deeper knowledge of a subject allowing the reader to make more accurate inferences
• To value the importance of reading as a facilitator for all other subjects, ultimately improving achievement
• To promote a strong base knowledge achieved giving the children a greater understanding of important ideas and concepts encoded into their long term memories
• To build a culture of pleasure not only in texts but also in the act of reading. Students hearing their teacher and peers read out loud with joy and expression connects them to the idea that books are relevant, worthwhile, and joyful
• To improved writing as a result of reading exposing and familiarizing children to different writing styles, expanding their vocabulary and enabling them to discover innovative ways to use interesting vocabulary

Pupils at Holme C of E Academy will leave Year 6:

•  Read a broad range of genres and texts across all areas of learning
• Discuss and recommend books to others
• Learn a wide range of poetry by heart showing understanding through intonation, volume and tone
• Compare two texts
• Support inference with evidence
• Skim and scan to aid note-taking
• Create a set of notes to summarise what has been read
• Provide reasoned justifications for their view
• Distinguish between statements of fact and opinion
• Summarise main points of an argument or discussion within their reading and make up own mind about issues
• Appreciates how two people may have a different view on the same event
• Draw inferences and justify with evidence from the text
• Vary voice for direct or indirect speech
• Predict what might happen next in the text
• Discuss and evaluate how authors use language and how it impacts the reader
• Identify and discuss how language, structure and ideas contribute to meaning
• Appreciate how a set of sentences has been arranged to create maximum effect