English Reading

Mrs Morris is the Reading Subject Leader at The Blessed Sacrament Catholic Primary School. Reading is part of our English, Language and Communication Faculty which is led by Mrs Morris.

                                                                                                   

                                                                                                   

Phonics

In class, children will be learning phonics, sight words and strategies to read unknown words. They will be part of a daily phonics session, which will develop their phonological knowledge and the skills of blending and segmenting.

Learning to Read

We use Oxford Reading Tree books for teaching reading . All of our books are phonetically decodable. 

Library Books

In addition to guided reading and individual home reading, all children from Reception onwards become members of our school library. They are given a barcode each to identify themselves on the library system and will have a session in our school library each week. During this time they can browse books and choose one to take home and read for pleasure with their families. This book might be one that they want to read for themselves or have an adult read to them and may vary in difficulty. The whole point in that they read for pleasure whether alone or with a sibling or adult. This book can be changed whenever they have library time.

Class Readers

We place a great deal of value on reading, listening to and sharing high quality texts as a class. Some of these texts will be revisited during our English work. We have a mixture of authors and our children really look forward to spending this time together as a class:

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

English Reading

In March 2022, we celebrated stories on World Book Day. We were invited to come to school dressed as a character from a story or bring in our favourite book. We took part in activities that introduced us to new books and stories which opened whole new worlds for us. Please watch the video below:

Some of our staff have recorded stories for you to listen to whenever you like:

Some of our staff have recorded their favourite poems to share with you: