Reading at Lyndhurst

 We love reading at Lyndhurst! Not only is it such an important life skill but it's so much fun too. It can help you to understand more about the world, take you on adventures and even escape into a different universe.

Although it is important you practise regularly, we also want you to enjoy reading and find authors and books that you just love to read. Our library has a huge collection of books including stories, comics, newspapers, play, poems and much more.

Intent 

At Lyndhurst Community Primary School, we inspire and challenge our pupils though high-quality and varied texts and genres from a range of authors from different cultures and backgrounds. We aim for our children to read any kind of text fluently and confidently and read for enjoyment We provide a progressive and enriching curriculum to build upon previous teaching, with regular assessment to ensure each child’s needs are met to reach their full potential. We believe that reading is the key to all learning and so the impact of our reading curriculum goes beyond and is embedded across the entire curriculum to support our children succeed in their learning journeys. 

Our school vision ‘Support, Challenge and Inspire’ is intertwined within the Curriculum

Support

We guide and nurture each individual on their own personal journeys to becoming fluent and confident readers. Children are supported by lessons focussing on fluency and decoding vocabulary before being exposed to comprehension questions. Additional support and intervention is provided for pupils in need.

Challenge

Ambitious texts and vocabulary are carefully selected. Extracts have been chosen to challenge children in regard to content, vocabulary and length (in improve stamina) Children are challenged in lessons through inference, retrieval and vocabulary. There is an additional challenge directed to the other reading domain for each lesson. 

Inspire

Through writing for a range of audiences and purposes, we ensure our children are inspired and motivated to write. We provide opportunities for children to write not only through carefully though about stimulus but in their personal writing projects. Teachers have the flexibility to adapt their planning to meet the needs of their class and find ways to engage their children.