Once children have mastered the Little Wandle phonics programme, they move onto our reading programme which prioritises: a love of reading; reading widely across a range of texts; fluency and a deep understanding of texts.

In school, children have a daily reading lesson where we focus on exposing children to a wide variety of texts including classic stories, contemporary work and non-fiction. We develop children's knowledge of vocabulary and teach them the skills to comprehend and analyse texts.

We promote a love of reading and use story time and Accelerated Reader to support this. We read stories to the children daily, modelling fluency and prosody. Accelerated Reader is a programme which supports children's independent reading; each child takes a short online quiz which then allocates them to a band. Children pick a book from the band and read it both in school and at home. The quiz ensures that the book is neither too easy nor too hard for them. Once they have read the book, they take a short online quiz which helps to ensure they have read it thoroughly and understood the content.