Mrs Morris and Miss Moore are the Reading Subject Leaders at The Blessed Sacrament Catholic Primary School. Reading is part of our English, Language and Communication Faculty which is led by Mrs Thompson.
English Reading
For details about the curriculum for each year group, please select from the following:
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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 will have a session in our school library each week. During this time they can browse books and choose one to take back to class and read for pleasure. 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 1 Class Reading Books
The Colour Monster
Anna Llenas
The Hodgeheg
Dick King-Smith
Animal Stories
Jill Tomlinson
Clarence Bean Books
Lauren Child
George’s Marvellous Medicine
Roald Dahl
Pet Stories
Enid Blyton
Year 2
Year 2 Class Reading Books
The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark
Jill Tomlinson
Fantastic Mr Fox
Roald Dahl
Animal Tales
Dick King Smith
I was a Rat
Philip Pullman
Summer Adventure Stories
Enid Blyton
Year 3
Year 3 Class Reading Books
A Bear Called Paddington
Michael Bond
Danny the Champion of the World
Roald Dahl
The Water Horse
Dick King Smith
Tom’s Midnight Garden
Philippa Pearce
The Iron Man
Ted Hughes
The Abominables
Eva Ibbotson
Year 4
Year 4 Class Reading Books
The Weather Weaver
Tamsin Mori
How to Train Your Dragon
Cressida Cowell
Planet Omar
Zanzibar Mian
Who Let the Gods Out
Maz Evans
Born to Run
Michael Morpurgo
Class Choice
Philip Pullman
Year 5
Year 5 Class Reading Books
Outlaw
Michael Morpurgo
Journey to the River Sea
Eva Ibbotson
The Railway Children
E. Nesbit
Aquila
Andrew Norris
Rooftoppers
Katherine Rundell
The Explorer
Katherine Rundell
Year 6
Year 6 Class Reading Books
I Am Malala
Malala Yousafzai
Night Bus Hero
Onjali Q Rauf
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
The Girl of Ink & Stars
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Wonder
R J Palacio
Welcome to Nowhere
Elizabeth Laird
Holes
Louis Sachar
Every year we celebrate World Book Day where children and staff are invited to dress up as book characters and talk to others about who they are and the book that their character is from.
This year World Book Day is Thursday March 7th 2024
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: