Reading at St Luke's 

Here at St Luke's CE Primary we love reading! We read in class, we read for pleasure and we read across our curriculum.  

Reading for pleasure

We love to read widely at St Luke's.  To make sure our reading for pleasure texts are purposeful, relevant and varied, we have an author and text focus each term for all of our year groups so that we read a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry without repetition throughout our school life. 

Reading Year 2 to Year 6

Starting with our Year 2 readers and then throughout KS2 (Years 3-6), word reading underpins comprehension, with a strong vocabulary focus. We use a VIPERS (Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval and Summarisation (Sequencing in KS1) approach to questioning alongside teaching key reading skills such as skimming and scanning to ensure children can access the text fully and answer a wide range of question types. Teachers have referenced the OfSTED Research review series: English to ensure the latest research about learning to read is applied in our lessons. For instance, our readers in Years 2 and 3 have a high emphasis on developing fluency and so teachers plan in weekly lessons to increase word reading speed as well as lessons throughout the week that ensure pupils are comprehending what they have read.  Children in all year groups also read widely and often across the wider curriculum with texts that match topics taught, again with a strong subject specific vocabulary focus.

Reading Ambassadors

The children will be working with the school council to ensure that reading is always at the top of the school council agenda.

Key Stage One Readers

Key Stage Two Readers