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title: "English Reading"
url: "https://www.blessedsacrament.mecmat.org/curriculum/english-reading"
school: "The Blessed Sacrament Catholic Primary School"
---

# English Reading

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### English Reading

 Provision Map (Reading)  98 KB  [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/files/documents/Provision_Map_Reading.pdf)

 Reading Policy  572 KB  [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/files/documents/Reading_Policy_on_a_-Page-_copy.pdf)

 English Intent Statement  415 KB  [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/files/documents/English_Intent_Statement.docx.pdf)

**For details about the curriculum for each year group, please select from the following:**

| [![](https://www.blessedsacrament.mecmat.org/images/Picture_1.png)](https://www.blessedsacrament.lancs.sch.uk/our-classes/reception) | [![](https://www.blessedsacrament.mecmat.org/images/Picture_1.png)](https://www.blessedsacrament.lancs.sch.uk/our-classes/1-blessed) | [![](https://www.blessedsacrament.mecmat.org/images/Picture_1.png)](https://www.blessedsacrament.lancs.sch.uk/our-classes/year-2) |
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| [**Early Years**](https://www.blessedsacrament.lancs.sch.uk/our-classes/reception) | [**Year 1**](https://www.blessedsacrament.lancs.sch.uk/our-classes/1-blessed) | [**Year 2**](https://www.blessedsacrament.lancs.sch.uk/our-classes/year-2) |

| [![](https://www.blessedsacrament.mecmat.org/images/Picture_1.png)](https://www.blessedsacrament.lancs.sch.uk/our-classes/year-3) | [![](https://www.blessedsacrament.mecmat.org/images/Picture_1.png)](https://www.blessedsacrament.lancs.sch.uk/our-classes/year-4) | [![](https://www.blessedsacrament.mecmat.org/images/Picture_1.png)](https://www.blessedsacrament.lancs.sch.uk/our-classes/year-5) | [![](https://www.blessedsacrament.mecmat.org/images/Picture_1.png)](https://www.blessedsacrament.lancs.sch.uk/our-classes/year-6) |
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| [**Year 3**](https://www.blessedsacrament.lancs.sch.uk/our-classes/year-3) | [**Year 4**](https://www.blessedsacrament.lancs.sch.uk/our-classes/year-4) | [**Year 5**](https://www.blessedsacrament.lancs.sch.uk/our-classes/year-5) | [**Year 6**](https://www.blessedsacrament.lancs.sch.uk/our-classes/year-6) |

#### **Phonics**

In class, children will be learning phonics, sight words and strategies to read unknown words. They will be part of a daily phonics session, which will develop their phonological knowledge and the skills of blending and segmenting.

#### **Learning to Read**

We use Oxford Reading Tree books for teaching reading . All of our books are phonetically decodable.

#### **Library Books**

In addition to guided reading and individual home reading, all children from Reception onwards become members of our school library. They will have a session in our school library each week. During this time they can browse books and choose one to take back to class and read for pleasure. This book might be one that they want to read for themselves or have an adult read to them and may vary in difficulty. The whole point in that they read for pleasure whether alone or with a sibling or adult. This book can be changed whenever they have library time.

#### **Class Readers**

We place a great deal of value on reading, listening to and sharing high quality texts as a class. Some of these texts will be revisited during our English work. We have a mixture of authors and our children really look forward to spending this time together as a class:

### Year 1

### Year 1 Class Reading Books

![The Colour Monster](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/5D17A3BB-7547-4C5F-B021-395CEA78707B.jpeg)

#### The Colour Monster

###### Anna Llenas

![The Hodgeheg](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/6DA2C14C-1EF2-4C97-B74C-CDCFE715A1B9.jpeg)

#### The Hodgeheg

###### Dick King-Smith

![Animal Stories](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/5CA07802-A10D-4EFB-86FD-54F96773658E.jpeg)

#### Animal Stories

###### Jill Tomlinson

![Clarence Bean Books](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/20EE4200-AE79-44E2-BAF3-46CC4DDF884E.jpeg)

#### Clarence Bean Books

###### Lauren Child

![George’s Marvellous Medicine](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/79452386-0E2F-4371-8236-DBF8F77E735E.jpeg)

#### George’s Marvellous Medicine

###### Roald Dahl

![Pet Stories](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/E0050AF7-EC1B-4326-B9B9-019E47F4DE39.jpeg)

#### Pet Stories

###### Enid Blyton

### Year 2

### Year 2 Class Reading Books

![The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/C799C15B-C386-4B00-ADDC-8AB2410C4037.jpeg)

#### The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark

###### Jill Tomlinson

![Fantastic Mr Fox](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/51D52B93-1E5A-454B-8834-625A9752BC38.jpeg)

#### Fantastic Mr Fox

###### Roald Dahl

![Animal Tales](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/DCB73220-F174-4B6F-9A99-2F8B2549A4DC.jpeg)

#### Animal Tales

###### Dick King Smith

![I was a Rat](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/41EC57B2-1A02-4BF2-9465-FD9A3B2B75E7.jpeg)

#### I was a Rat

###### Philip Pullman

![Summer Adventure Stories](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/B1335D40-786D-48AB-A840-F1B11590E59A.jpeg)

#### Summer Adventure Stories

###### Enid Blyton

### Year 3

### Year 3 Class Reading Books

![A Bear Called Paddington](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/264FFDCB-AF76-4B89-A0EE-8F075DBD0017.jpeg)

#### A Bear Called Paddington

###### Michael Bond

![Danny the Champion of the World](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/90287350-303B-4592-A76F-EA43B705CE53.jpeg)

#### Danny the Champion of the World

###### Roald Dahl

![The Water Horse](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/20AA2E39-6786-4E63-B9EC-1D56FE9963C6.jpeg)

#### The Water Horse

###### Dick King Smith

![Tom’s Midnight Garden](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/5D9A508D-0126-4572-82B7-2A4243A185FF.jpeg)

#### Tom’s Midnight Garden

###### Philippa Pearce

![The Iron Man](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/7D526925-B06E-4744-A8EA-354764E9A30A.jpeg)

#### The Iron Man

###### Ted Hughes

![The Abominables](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/DAF768C0-29FE-4CA4-972D-C0211B6425FB.jpeg)

#### The Abominables

###### Eva Ibbotson

### Year 4

### Year 4 Class Reading Books

![The Weather Weaver](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/4D519851-6547-411E-9DAD-9ECBFF672DA9.jpeg)

#### The Weather Weaver

###### Tamsin Mori

![How to Train Your Dragon](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/C654B8FD-555B-4FD0-8DF1-AF532E02DE81.jpeg)

#### How to Train Your Dragon

###### Cressida Cowell

![Planet Omar](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/480FE14A-0CA6-4BC4-AF3A-8E388820383F.jpeg)

#### Planet Omar

###### Zanzibar Mian

![Who Let the Gods Out](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/8B496D21-177C-4107-84A1-A7A745962515.jpeg)

#### Who Let the Gods Out

###### Maz Evans

![Born to Run](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/7F17CD32-1FCA-4AA0-9CC0-1412B77ADAB4.jpeg)

#### Born to Run

###### Michael Morpurgo

![Class Choice](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/1D7A589B-02E4-4CBC-AF59-4E9870218804.jpeg)

#### Class Choice

###### Philip Pullman

### Year 5

### Year 5 Class Reading Books

![Outlaw](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/09042B66-4243-4582-8AB4-D16223465EC1.jpeg)

#### Outlaw

###### Michael Morpurgo

![Journey to the River Sea](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/B212E4A7-EFFC-4251-9BCE-B51A4A03956F.jpeg)

#### Journey to the River Sea

###### Eva Ibbotson

![The Railway Children](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/CB0370DF-081D-4650-B38E-431E3D6BE026.jpeg)

#### The Railway Children

###### E. Nesbit

![Aquila](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/E8E9D597-C0ED-4727-B621-2E18DA8B2E0E.jpeg)

#### Aquila

###### Andrew Norris

![Rooftoppers](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/1C45D7D0-1A9D-4452-A290-BA00F544D305.jpeg)

#### Rooftoppers

###### Katherine Rundell

![The Explorer](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/E5BEEE3E-3B1D-485D-A994-0B2ADB8B87E2.jpeg)

#### The Explorer

###### Katherine Rundell

### Year 6

### Year 6 Class Reading Books

![I Am Malala](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/2A41FC00-0D90-499A-98F5-24D57995A44D.jpeg)

#### I Am Malala

###### Malala Yousafzai

![Night Bus Hero](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/A8112F35-D6CC-47A0-B7CF-B728854378EC.jpeg)

#### Night Bus Hero

###### Onjali Q Rauf

![A Christmas Carol](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/66E535A7-8793-43FC-BEE5-4DBF11B2E6BB.jpeg)

#### A Christmas Carol

###### Charles Dickens

![The Girl of Ink & Stars](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/B9A39771-0C9B-4DDA-A019-1DF076110B5A.jpeg)

#### The Girl of Ink & Stars

###### Kiran Millwood Hargrave

![Wonder](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/EF0CCF2B-B97D-45DD-AE50-3A7F4E0EF36E.jpeg)

#### Wonder

###### R J Palacio

![Welcome to Nowhere](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/2AB05275-41E5-4743-BCA0-B24353206E49.jpeg)

#### Welcome to Nowhere

###### Elizabeth Laird

![Holes](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/imagecache/360x480c/people/12FDE89B-5D49-4997-8203-FBCC08BF12E6.jpeg)

#### Holes

###### Louis Sachar

Every year we celebrate World Book Day where children and staff are invited to dress up as book characters and talk to others about who they are and the book that their character is from.

This year World Book Day is Thursday March 7th 2024

#### **Some of our staff have recorded stories for you to listen to whenever you like:**

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#### **Some of our staff have recorded their favourite poems to share with you:**

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