English - Reading

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Dr Seuss

Subject Lead: Mrs R Munro

At Thomas Coram, we love reading! The children enjoy reading and relish the opportunity to share and recommend books to one another. We are fortunate enough to have a fantastic library here at TC. The children are able to visit the library to borrow books and for library lessons with our librarian, Mrs Rawlings, where they develop, talk about and share with each other their love of reading. The children have their own personal reading journals. These journals provide a thinking space for children to explore and reflect on their reading experience. The library is also open to year groups on selected lunchtimes throughout the week. By the time the children reach Thomas Coram, our children are good readers and our focus is to develop their fluency and comprehension skills, through the use of The Literacy Shed VIPERS skills and high quality short texts covering a range of genres during our Guided Reading lessons. Guided Reading sessions focus on echo reading the short text to improve fluency, identifying the genre of each text, finding out the meaning of unknown vocabulary through word attack strategies and answering comprehension questions using their VIPERS skills. Please find out more about how we teach reading at Thomas Coram below. To promote reading further we invite authors in to talk about their books. In the past year, we have been lucky enough to host the following amazing authors: Hannah Gold, Cressida Cowell, A.F. Steadman, Pari Thomson, Jack Meggitt-Phillips and Steve Clifford.

Our priority is to get children excited about books, stories and rhymes because if reading is fun, children will want to do it. That's why we've included Great Book Guides from the Book Trust for each age group below. These guides are full of books carefully chosen to engage and excite children. We believe that the "right" book is always the book a child wants to read – and we hope this guide inspires our children to find that book.

Please see some recommended books from the Book Trust here: Great Books Guide: 100 best new books for children

When I grow up...

Here are some of the jobs you could aspire to do in the future as a reader:

Publicity Assistant

Editor in Chief

Teacher

For more careers visit Careers in English | Page 5 of 5 | First Careers

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