Year 2 - 6

Once children have completed our RWI phonics program (including RWI comprehension) children then move into our share reading curriculum which is built around a sequence of high-quality, age-appropriate texts, using Literacy Counts’ Ready Steady Read Together units of learning.

This resource provides dynamic and inclusive lessons that integrate metacognitive strategies and feature diverse literature from exceptional authors. It aims to inspire children and families to develop a lifelong love of reading for pleasure, knowledge and information. The intent is that all pupils, from year 2 to year 6, regardless of their needs, abilities or background, have opportunities to meet, and where possible exceed, the National Curriculum expectations for reading comprehension.

Ready Steady Read Together gives every pupil access to high-quality texts, enabling them to experience literature that develops fluency, vocabulary and understanding. Through teacher modelling of expression, pace, intonation and prosody, children learn how skilled readers bring meaning to a text and how these features support comprehension. Shared reading also creates opportunities for discussion, questioning, drama and exploration of language, which deepen comprehension whilst enhancing oracy skills. Crucially, it ensures that every child, regardless of their decoding ability, can engage with ambitious texts and develop the habit of reading widely and often for both pleasure and learning.

Within each year group, we have a physical copy of each of the texts studied so that children are able to borrow then as a reading for pleasure text after they have explored it in lessons. For many of the fiction books, we also have additional copies within the school library so they can read these alongside their peers.