Rationale

At TVEd, we recognise the importance of English in the curriculum and in our daily lives. We believe pupils should be exposed to a wide range of texts which will enable them to access and learn about the wider world. Through a high-quality English curriculum, we aim to support children in developing skills that will enable them to be lifelong learners and have a profound influence on their progress in school.

Reading is crucial in enabling access in all areas of the curriculum. Children will be given opportunities to develop their knowledge and understanding within a broad and balanced curriculum, with opportunities to identify and build on prior knowledge within a sequence of learning. We aim to provide children with the best possible opportunities to become confident, literate and successful members of society with a deep love and understanding of English language and literature. 

The aim is that teachers of reading at TVEd have a good knowledge of the curriculum, an understanding of effective pedagogies and provide high quality models as a speaker, reader and writer. We aspire for all teachers to be readers of children’s books and be confident in teaching children to comprehend texts and develop a love of reading. 

Reading into Writing

Whilst the reading and writing approach stand-alone from each other there may be features in the reading text that can be highlighted to support the quality of writing by providing children with information or some specific features which will be useful to their independent writing. Making these kinds of links must not distract from exploring the text as a quality reading experience or quality writing experience. However, there is an expectation that the reading used will influence the writing and the writing genre should influence the reading comprehension texts and strategies chosen.

Purpose

Intent

At TVEd, we strive to help our children develop into articulate and imaginative communicators, who are well-equipped with the basic skills they need to become life-long learners and have a positive impact on our community and industry at the heart of our area; English learning is key in this. We aim to ensure all of our children develop a genuine love of language and the written word, through a text-based approach; this links closely to the way we teach writing, as the text that we use in reading lessons, where possible, is a similar text to the one that we use in our writing lessons so that children are able to contextualise and apply their learning. 

Careful links are made across the curriculum to ensure that children’s English learning is relevant and meaningful: where possible making links between reading and writing but also with the wider curriculum and world. We ensure that children develop an understanding of how texts are used in everyday life and, therefore, how important and useful the skills are that they are learning. Our intentions in reading are for children to: 

• Develop a love of reading. 
• Read for purpose and identify the audience of different genres.
• See themselves as readers.
• Take ownership of their reading choices. Read a range of texts. 
• Be able to comprehend across a range of opportunities
• Vary their reading according to the purpose