Our Reading Spine

At the heart of our Reading Curriculum are our book choices. The books experienced by our children have been especially selected to ignite an excitement around reading whilst simultaneously ensuring our children are exposed to rich variety of texts which challenge and open doors to new worlds. Our children are read to for pleasure daily during DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) time which has a dedicated time slot on all of our timetables from Nursery to Year 6.

Our books are selected with the following criteria in mind to ensure a broad, balanced choice of simply amazing texts are offered to our pupils: World-Renowned Authors and Poets, Prize-Winning Books, The 5 Plagues of Reading (archaic language, non-linear time sequences, a complex narrative, resistant text and figurative/symbolic text), Diversity, Inclusivity, Cultural Capital

Our book choices are carefully mapped out in our reading spine which runs from Nursery right through to Year 6.

Below are a sample of texts which appear on our reading spine.