Reading
Intent
In the CVIS community, reading is the heart of our curriculum. Our vision is to develop curious and ambition minds through fostering a love of reading in every child by providing them with the tools, opportunities, and inspiration to become confident, fluent, and enthusiastic readers.
Our reading curriculum is designed to instil a life-long passion for reading, and we are determined to ensure that our pupils can speak, read and write fluently so that they can succeed in future life.
“Develop curious, ambitious minds”
ELS phonics begins in our pre-school, to equip children with a solid foundation in phonics through structured and systematic teaching, enabling them to decode and read fluently.
To provide early reading foundations that enable pupils to be enthusiastic readers with a passion and love for storytelling, literature and vocabulary.
To ensure that all children learn to read and read to learn.
To immerse children in a range of genres in order to develop cultural capital and provoke thought.
To encourage a love of reading for pleasure that lasts a lifetime whilst ensuring that children understand the value of reading as a life skill.
Through thorough tracking we ensure that no child is left behind; those few pupils who find learning to read a challenge are supported by ELS interventions targeted to their specific needs.
Reading in Early Years
Reading is the beating heart of curriculum provision in EYFS and leads/supports the learning across a variety of areas. Children are exposed to a wide range of texts that cover a variety of genres. Opportunities to listen to stories, re-enact stories and sing rhymes are fundamental to establishing a love of reading early on.
ELS foundation supports all learners to develop their Phase 1 skills and teaching of Phase 1 takes place in pre-school through building an awareness of sounds within our language, development of vocabulary and language and modelling effective communication.
Reading in Key Stage 1
In Key Stage 1 children will continue to build on their knowledge of decoding and blending to become fluent readers who are able to immerse themselves in a wide range of literature. Children will build their knowledge of reading techniques, through increasingly challenging texts, and will apply these skills across the wider curriculum.
Our writing and reading curriculum is interwoven with the use of high quality children's literature as class readers to inspire both reading and writing.
Upon completion of ELS Phonics - children in Year 2 build on the skill of decoding through whole class reading sessions and Readers Theatre to develop fluency, prosody and comprehension.
Reading Culture
At CVIS, we are creating a culture for reading through our environment, working with families and inspiring enrichment. We host regular events such as reading breakfasts, come read with us sessions, book fairs, World Book Day events, author visits and workshops. 
Recommended Reads
Each of the Books for Topics Year Group Recommended Reads lists contains 50 books specially picked out for reading for pleasure in each primary year group.
reception recommended reads poster 2024.pdf
year 1 recommended reads poster 2024.pdf
year 2 recommended reads poster 2024.pdf
World Book Day 2025 'Book in a Box' Competition
