Hackney Loves Reading is an approach to teaching reading at William Patten School once children have finished learning RWI. It addresses the revised National Curriculum objectives that focuses on:
- Oracy / discussion
- Reading for pleasure to establish a love of reading
- Reading to gain knowledge across the curriculum
- Exposure to a wider variety of extended texts
- Vocabulary
It aims to:
- To foster a life-long love of reading
- To develop a consistent approach to reading across KS1 (after RWI) and in KS2
- To provide teachers with guidance in the teaching of reading
- To provide a curriculum in line with the requirements of the New National Curriculum
Key features:
- Independent learning based on learning behaviours
- Direct teaching of reading (15 approximately minutes) with whole class before independent reading session (30mins)
- Focus on talk – partner work, discussion and explanation
- Consistent whole school approach to ‘reading for pleasure’
- Focus on teaching of key strategies which enable a deeper understanding of texts
- Focus on reading a range of high quality fiction, non-fiction and poetry
Reading strategies:
- Prediction
- Ask questions
- Clarifying (Spot breakdowns and try to mend them)
- Summarising (put important items together)
- Inference using clues
- Making connections to background knowledge, personal experiences and previous reading
- Evaluation (identify important words or phrases)
- Developing effective learning behaviours
- Support and actively listen to each other
- Discuss and explain our ideas
- Take responsibility for our own learning
