Our Aims for Reading
At Avonwood, we strive to ensure all pupils are confident and fluent readers by the time they leave Primary school; we believe that reading is the key to success and underpins all learning. Having high expectations and a consistent approach to phonics ensures children are given the best possible foundation for reading, communication and language skills.
Through reading, pupils have a chance to develop culturally, emotionally, intellectually, socially and spiritually. Literature, especially, plays a key role in such development. We therefore place high importance on ensuring that our reading curriculum is rich with opportunities to explore and learn about the world that we live in and the key figures in it. Reading also enables pupils both to acquire knowledge and to build on what they already know. All the skills of language are essential to participating fully as a member of society; pupils who do not learn to speak and read fluently and confidently are effectively disenfranchised.
Aims:
The overarching aim for reading in the national curriculum is to promote high standards of language and literacy by equipping pupils with a strong command of the spoken word, and to develop their love of literature through widespread reading for enjoyment. The national curriculum for reading aims to ensure that all pupils:
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Develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information
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Acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, and spoken language
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Appreciate our rich and varied literary heritage