Introduction
Welcome to the Inspire Partnership’s reading exemplification materials. We hope that this document will provide useful models for staff when thinking about how to plan effective questions around reading to enable all pupils to reach at least the expected standard for their year group.
Children in Key Stage 1 are taught reading lessons daily, using a combination of the once weekly guided reading lessons and then moving on to whole class reading in the spring and summer term.
The focus in year 1 is for the children to decode fluently, therefore teachers ensure the children read daily. Children in key stage two are taught reading daily using the whole class reading approach based on research and studies.
Trials
A combination of trials conducted across our partnership of schools and good practice seen in other schools led to our whole class reading ethos. The approach involves daily sessions incorporating whole class modelling, partner work and independent reading to deliver structured daily reading sessions.
The whole class reading sessions encompass the key principles of effective reading provision and fully meets the requirements of the National Curriculum. Children record reading lessons in their ‘reading journals’. Snapshots of the learning across the week are captured through ‘selfies’ and comprehension questions (big questions) are designed with a focus on specific reading strategies.
Children deepen their understanding of the texts they read through the systematic use of a series of strategies and language stems. The strategies include predicting, questioning, inferring, clarifying, summarising, making connections and evaluating.