Reading at Langtons
Children have many opportunities for reading in school which include: shared reading in the daily English session, guided reading with their teacher as part of Book Club, sharing a class book and story time at the end of the day. As well as these scheduled opportunities to read in class, each classroom has a dedicated reading area to encourage reading for pleasure. The children have the opportunity to visit our school library weekly and select a book of their choice to take home.
Children will have opportunities to read frequently during whole class English lessons. This may involve reading together as a class from the board or reading/sharing a range of texts.
Guided reading and Book Club
Each week the children will work with the class teacher in a small group to read the book that they have taken home. This book will be marked in their reading as a 'TA' book which stands for Teacher Assessment. This book is aimed at the reading ability of each child and they should be able to read this book independently. During Book Club the children will also be given another book to take home to read for pleasure. They may need some guidance or support to read this second book. At this time, the children not working with the teacher have the opportunity to read their TA book to their peers and also have the opportunity to read a book of their choice.
You can support your child by listening to them read daily. You may wish to make comments in your child's reading record. To add further incentive to the children to read, we encourage RED TED (Read Every Day, Talk Every Day). There are many rewards the children can earn such as a pencil, bookmark or badge. They will also get an opportunity to gain a raffle ticket which will be entered into a draw at the end of the year so that one lucky reader will win a bike!
Local Library Visits
It is our aim to ensure our pupils become members of our local library. We want our children to have access to the rich variety of texts that the library offers. Our children have the opportunity to become mini-members which will last throughout their journey at Langtons Infant School & Nursery. Visits to the local library take place half-termly.