“The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn the more places you'll go.”
Our vision for children at Northside is for them to develop a love of literature and become fluent readers who love nothing more than to spend quality time with a ‘Terrific Text’.
Reading is at the centre of all our children’s learning and we instil an attitude of ‘reading for pleasure’ from Early Years all the way through to Year 6 and including the adults within the school. Our library is the hub of the school and outside reading dens encourage reading in free time.
Reading is celebrated each week in a whole school assembly with certificates for achievements as well as having the opportunity to select a book for ‘Golden Ticket’ winners. Teaching staff are members of our book club and read a focused book each half term.
We achieve this through starting with Phonics (using Letters and Sounds), developing to shared reading using banded books, progressing to whole class guided reading using high quality texts and achieving a love of reading through a broad range of genres for pleasure. We use DERIC to teach the skills of comprehension though whole class daily guided reading.
DERIC stands for:
Independent Reading
All children are catered for through appropriate texts, tightly linked to their ability.