Overchurch Junior School uses the Literacy Counts Steps to Read programme for the daily teaching of reading.
The primary aim of the Steps to Read programme is to teach reading comprehension skills and strategies explicitly.
Steps to Read:
To foster a love of reading and motivate regular reading practice, our children have access to a wide range of quality texts.
Our Reading Planet scheme provides children who are learning to read a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts that follow a progressive and systematic approach.
Once secure and fluent in their reading, our ‘free-readers’ choose books from our class or school libraries to match their Accelerated Reader Book Level (or ZPD) and their interests.
At Overchurch Juniors, we have high aspirations and set our children the challenge to read at least 4 times a week at home to an adult.
Reading progress is mapped out using the Literacy Counts, Reading Counts assessment document and the Accelerated Reader Star Reader Test
At Overchurch Juniors, the majority of our children arrive with secure phonics knowledge. For those children who need additional support to become familiar with the 44 sounds and corresponding graphemes used in English, phonics intervention is provided daily using our Rocket Phonics scheme.
All our children have access to high quality texts used throughout the teaching of reading.
1:1 reading support, 3 times a week, is provided for our lowest 20% and Pupil Premium readers.
The reading spine is a core of books that create a living library inside a child’s minds: a store of classics and essential reads that help children engage at a deeper level and enter the world of the story, fostering a love of reading. Please see below for our reading spine books.
