Reading Intent
It is our intent at Crowan Primary School that EVERY child becomes a confident and fluent reader and that every child can speak accurately, confidently and with passion about books they have read.
We intend to ensure all pupils read widely across both fiction and non-fiction to develop knowledge of themselves and the world in which they live, to establish an appreciation and love of reading, to gain knowledge across the curriculum and to develop their comprehension skills.
It is our intention to ensure that, by the end of their primary education, that all of our children will be able to read fluently, and with confidence, in any subject in their forthcoming secondary education.
Reading Vipers
At Crowan Primary School, children are taught the skills of reading (outlined in the National Curriculum and the KS1 and KS2 test domains) through the use of VIPERS.
VIPERS is an anagram to aid the recall of the 6 reading domains as part of the UK’s reading curriculum. They are the key areas which we feel children need to know and understand in order to improve their comprehension of texts.
The six domains focus on the comprehension aspect of reading and not the mechanics: decoding, fluency, prosody, etc. As such, VIPERS is not a reading scheme but rather a method of ensuring that teachers ask, and students are familiar with, a range of questions. They allow the teacher to track the type of questions asked and the children’s responses to these which allows for targeted questioning afterwards.
We have developed a progressive set of VIPERS skills for each year group:
Year 1 VIPERS skills progression.pdf
Year 2 VIPERS skills progression.pdf
Year 3 VIPERS skills progression.pdf
Year 4 VIPERS skills progression.pdf
Year 5 VIPERS skills progression.pdf
Year 6 VIPERS skills progression.pdf
We LOVE to Read!
At Crowan Primary School, we believe reading is the most important thing we can teach and our pupils LOVE to read! Reading is at the centre of all that we do and we recognise how important reading is to support children in later life.
At Crowan Primary School we have a personalised reading spine which is a collection of recommended books which are considered to be ‘must-reads’ for everyone. The books in this collection consist of our Author of the Terms, our class novels, our whole-class reading texts and a list of recommended reading for pleasure books which contain a wide range of non-fiction texts and poetry as well as key fiction texts.
Each book has been carefully chosen to stretch vocabulary, expose children to different cultures, encourage critical and analytical thinking and promote a love of reading.
