Christ Church Reading Expectations
| Year group | What we expect from school | What we expect from home |
| Reception | Children will have their reading books changed weekly. Reading records will be looked at once a week. Children will be sent home a Little Wandle decodable phonic book once a week very soon. More to come on this soon. | Children read a minimum of 5-10 minutes daily and an adult at home makes an entry in the reading record each day. Please ensure the reading record is in school everyday. |
| Year 1 and Year 2 | Children will have their books changed once a week.Reading records will be looked at once a week.Children will be sent home a Little Wandle decodable phonic book once a week very soon. More to come on this soon. | Children read a minimum of 10 minutes daily and an adult at home makes an entry in the reading record each time. Please ensure the reading record is in school everyday. |
| Year 3 and 4 | By this age children can be reading longer books, so books will be changed when the child has finished his/her book. Reading records will be looked at once a week. | Children read a minimum of 10-15 minutes daily. Children can write their own daily comments, but an adult should support this. Adults at home can also write comments and you may notice comments written by staff who hear your child read at school. Please ensure the reading record is in school everyday. |
| Year 5 and 6 | By this age children can be reading chapter books, so books will be changed when the child has finished his/her book. Reading records will be looked at once a week. | Children read a minimum of 15-20 minutes daily. Children can write their own daily comments. Adults at home can also write comments and you may notice comments written by staff who hear your child read at school. Please ensure the reading record is in school everyday. |
Here are some ideas for reading comments you might like to use:
- Read familiar words independently
- Able to predict what happens next in the text
- Showed good understanding of the text
- Read with good expression
- Worked out new words independently
- Worked out new words by sounding them out
- Discussed the story and characters well
- Used good spoken expression
- Enjoyed reading this book a lot
- Self-corrected own errors independently
- Using phonics to blend words
- Read with fluency and expression
- Able to read this book, but with lots of prompting
- Struggled to work out a lot of the vocabulary e.g chain, chop and chair
- Found it challenging to retell the story