Reading at Cumberland

Reading is a fundamental skill that supports children’s learning across the whole curriculum and helps a child reach their full potential. At Cumberland, we aim for our children to become life-long, confident and reflective readers who love and enjoy reading widely and often.

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Aims

• Teach a high quality systematic synthetic phonics programme so that children become effective ‘word readers’.
•  Enable children to read confidently, fluently and with understanding through a variety of discreet and cross-curricular learning opportunities.
• Provide access to a print-rich environment throughout the school to widen the children’s vocabulary and stimulate their interest in reading.
• Provide early readers with a high quality range of decodable books for Home Reading.
• Provide a wide variety of high quality, inspiring and exciting texts (including songs) that children love and enjoy.
• Develop children’s interest in words and their meanings to cultivate their growing vocabulary.
• Develop strong partnerships with parents/carers to enable them to best support their children when reading at home.
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  Teaching and Learning approaches
   
• Cumberland teaching strategies include whole-class teaching, guided group work and one-to-one support.
• Teaching and learning in the Foundation Stage is based on the area of learning Communication, Language and Literacy from The Early Years and Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework.                                              
•  In Key Stage 1, teaching and learning of reading is based on the 2014 National Curriculum for Reading.
• Children are assessed against the Early Literacy Goals and national age-related expectations.                   
• Pupil provision is personalised to the needs of the child through differentiated planning.
• Children in need of further support are identified through ongoing assessment and receive targeted reading support.