Reading Development

Year

Book 1

Book 2

Book 3

7

Boy: Tales of Childhood
Roald Dahl

The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh
Helen Ritter

Millions
Frank Cottrell-Boyce

8

Goodnight Mr Tom
Michelle Magorian

Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾
Sue Townsend

Holes
Louis Sachar

9

Hate
Alan Gibbons

Heroes
Robert Cormier

Al Capone Does My Shirts
Gennifer Choldenko

10

The Fault in Our Stars
John Green

The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
Sue Townsend

Woman in Black
Susan Hill

Strategy

Detail & Intended Impact

Reading Age Testing

Accurately identify reading ages of students to enable timely interventions to take place.

Enables staff in all subjects to appropriately differentiate for their classes

After School Reading Support

Students that are just below are supported to improve utilising the Academic Study Support Team to complete the Rapid Plus intervention program

In School Reading Intervention

Students that are identified as requiring additional support will be given 1:3 reading support sessions delivered by ITT students twice per week

Word of the Week

Raise the profile of vocabulary use in school by introducing students to a new Tier 2 word each week, and actively reward students that correctly use the word of the week in their work.

Word of the Week in Classrooms, around school and on Website & updated each week

Academic Reading

Students to begin reading for purpose in all subjects by completing one piece of wider academic reading each half term in lesson with some comprehension questions in place to review understanding.

OLQP Template to be provided.

This to be then embedded into departmental curriculum plans going forward

Phonics Training

Key staff aware of effective strategies to support the development of student reading

Library Relaunch

Library re-organised to showcase the wide variety of fiction books available.

Students in Y7-10 to have opportunity to choose from a selection of age-appropriate books to give a “chosen by year x” section of the library & increase the number of students accessing the library.

Lunch time access to the library to be put back in place on designated days

Strategy

Detail & Intended Impact

Group Reading Training

All staff are trained to include time for group reading in classrooms with modelling of good practice shared by the English department.

Tier 2 & 3 Word Refresher

All staff aware of the hierarchy of word usage and their part in developing student literacy and vocabulary

Staff and students able to use these words confidently in lesson and across school

Phonics for All

All staff are aware of how they can use Phonics strategies in their classrooms to reinforce the development of reading and spelling.

Early Reading Intervention

Students that have been identified as very weak readers will undertake an intensive phonics development course to rapidly allow them to make progress with their reading

Form Time Reading Program

All students are given the opportunity to read and hear other people read twice per week. Research shows that group reading with students following along improves everybody’s reading skills.

Form Tutors provided with a “road map” of where they need to be in each book across a 10-week program

Vocabulary Development (Bedrock Learning)

Students actively exposed to increased vocabulary in a range of settings and situations