Year 6 Reading Page

As we prepare for transition to secondary school and the next stage of our learning journey, we value the importance of reading. We know that reading is a life skill which we will need, to enable us to succeed at every stage of our lives in the future.

In Year 6 we read for many reasons and in many different ways. All our English objectives are covered by reading a good quality text. Below, you will find the texts we have looked at so far this year. We know that reading develops our own vocabulary, improves our understanding of grammar and enables us to write at a much higher level, using a wide variety of sentence structures. We cannot write good sentences if we have not read them first. Therefore, our reading wall has always got good examples of vocabulary and sentences from our current book.

Sometimes, we read a text individually or in small groups. We discuss the book and complete activities independently, or with support, in our reading journals. We also enjoy listening to an adult reading to us. This can be Mrs Williams, Mrs Chatterton or sometimes Mrs Annis reads to us as a cool down after P.E.

 Mr Lister often links his music lessons to the book we are reading and when Mrs Breakwell is planning our artwork, she looks at our class text first and then she links it to our art objectives. As you can see, reading is very much a cross curricula activity in our classroom. We read in every lesson.e read every day in school and every night at home. We really enjoy listening to our teacher when she reads to us!

One of our favourite times of the day is when Mrs Williams asks us to get our own reading book and we enjoy quiet time, escaping into a world of our imagination. We each have a vocabulary book and if we come across a new word, we have time to look it up and add it to our own vocabulary list or to the class list on the working wall.