Comprehension
10-10-2024
After reading our comprehension text, we worked together to label a diagram, using the information from the text to help.
Reading
At Pleasant Street Primary School, we believe that developing an interest in reading is key to the future success of our children. We aim to develop enthusiastic and confident readers who can understand a wide range of texts. We have a well stocked library that children use regularly, they have an active role in the decisions about the texts that are available. We have a dedicated Twitter account that celebrates reading across the school and allows us to interact with authors and illustrators. Our children also enjoy sessions with our reading dog Saha who makes regular appearances in our school library.
Children will be taught to:
- Read aloud fluently and with expression
- Read for meaning
- Develop the skills required for the critical reading of texts
- Read a wide range of fiction, poetry and non-fiction materials
- Use a range of strategies for reading including:
- Phonic (sounding the letters and blending them together. Visual (whole word recognition and analogy with known words)
- Contextual (use of picture and background knowledge)
- Grammatical (which words make sense)
In July 2018, we achieved the Gold Level Reading Quality Mark.
From Year 1 to Year 6 children take part in Whole Class Reading sessions that are based on a chapter book. In the sessions children complete activities based on inference and deduction, retrieval and vocabulary.
Reading Book Bags and Diaries
We expect pupils to have reading book bags in school each day. This gives us the opportunities to read with pupils more often if the timetable allows. Children will read with an adult at least once a week and this will be noted in the reading diary. We ask that parents read with their child or listen to them read daily. This could be the text the children have chosen from school, a book on an online platform such as Oxford Owl, a comic or newspaper or a book the child has at home. We ask that parents comment in the reading diaries about their child’s progress at least once a week. If the diary does not contain comments from parents we will assume that a child has not received any support from home with their reading and we will contact parents to offer help and advice. Comments do not have to be lengthy. We have added a picture with examples below.
Useful Websites
Useful Documents
Reading Newsletter
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to our newsletter, we will have another edition coming out in the Spring Term.
Storytime Online extracts from booksfortopics.com. Scan the QR code or click on the following link to access all of the stories on their website.
Reading Chatter
Reading Buddies
07-10-2024
Our reading buddies have enjoyed reading together again this year. Some pupils enjoyed sharing some brand new non-fiction books together, finding out lots of information about plants and flowers.
Fantastic storyboard English work.
30-09-2024
In English Reception have been reading and exploring the story ‘Juniper Jupiter’. Reception have drew pictures of what happened within the story on to a storyboard. Reception worked so hard to remember what parts of the story and what to draw.
Oliver’s Vegetables
26-09-2024
This week we have been reading Oliver’s Vegetables, we discussed what vegetables we already know and some new. To find out wether the children liked or disliked the vegetables we did a taste test.
Thank you!
16-07-2024
We were so grateful to one of our Y6 pupils who decided to choose a selection of books for the school library to help other love reading as much as her. Thank you to you and your family for such a generous gift, we wish you every success for the future!
Michael Rosen Event
08-07-2024
Class 3 enjoyed a trip to The Florrie on Friday to take part in poetry activities and to listen to Michael Rosen talk and recite some poetry. We took part in a workshop to create our own animal poems, played poetry games and listened to a man called George reading his favourite poems. We had a brilliant time and loved hearing some of our favourite poems including Chocolate Cake and No Breathing in Class!
Little Red
12-06-2024
In English this term we are exploring the book “Little Red”. In our choose time the children have loved to dress up as all the characters in the story.
This week the children have been working so hard to write all about the story. Today for our sentence snake we wrote “Red went into the woods” the children worked independently to write their sentence, they did a fantastic job.
World Book Day
08-03-2024
Reception celebrated world book day by reading the story Little Red Riding Hood this year, we had a fun day with lots of different activities such as role playing the story and sequencing the story in to order, we also made our own little red riding hoods.
World Book Day
07-03-2024
The children wore some wonderful costumes and outfits today, as they celebrated World Book Day. The children were also excited to take home their free book.
World Book Day
07-03-2024
The children wore some wonderful costumes and outfits today, as they celebrated World Book Day in style. There were superheroes in class, along with wizards and princesses! The children were also excited to take home their free book.
World Book Day
07-03-2024
We have had great discussions in class today on some interesting books and watched a live stream where the author John Patrick Green told us all about his ideas for his books and his inspiration for becoming an author.
World Book Day??
07-03-2024
Class three have enjoyed world book day! It has been so fun and interesting seeing and hearing about each others costumes and favourite books?
Book Week in Reception
07-02-2024
In Reception we were read a lovely story ‘Archie’s grand plan’ online by the author Ray Lowthian. Reception then drew a hat for Archie and pretended to be ants and anteaters. Thank you Ray for our lovely story.
Author Event
30-01-2024
Mental Health and Well-being Week
Today we have been very lucky to listen to Natalie Denny, Natalie went into amazing detail of her characters and what goes into writing a published book. We then had the pleasure of listening to the first chapter of Natalie Denny’s new book, Keisha Jones is a Force of Nature!
This book is about when Keisha discovers that the trees in a nearby park are going to be cut down to make way for a carpark, the Bee Squad has its next cause. It’s time for some green activism to save the VITs … that’s Very Important Trees!
Reading Buddies visit JMU
29-01-2024
Some of our reading buddies were invited to John Moores University library to talk about reading and books with some Childhood Studies University students. They discussed some of the books in the library, why they selected them and their thoughts on the content and illustrations.
The Journey
11-01-2024
We enjoyed looking at our hook reveal and making some amazing predictions on what our story could be about. What could all these items mean?
This term class 4 have the pleasure in reading “The Journey” by Francesca Sanna. This book explores the unimaginable decisions made as a family leave their home and everything they know to escape the turmoil and tragedy brought by war.
Reading Buddy Training
16-10-2023
Today our new reading buddies had some training from their peers who ran demo sessions and offered some advice to help the sessions run smoothly. We can’t wait to get our new buddies out and about in school every morning.
The Nowhere Emporium
10-10-2023
The burning question today is who will get the copies of the sequel to Class 6’s whole class read book. We have never seen children so enthused about a series before.
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