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Reading For Pleasure

Reading for Pleasure at Bishop Chavasse

At Bishop Chavasse, we believe that every child deserves a rich curriculum, which encourages extensive reading of different genres and authors. We actively encourage reading for pleasure, for every single child, to ensure that children are exposed to a wide range of high-quality texts. Research shows a positive link between reading frequency, and enjoyment, and educational attainment, and so we strive to promote the concepts of reading for fun, enjoyment and pleasure.

Our curriculum includes a range of books and the children also have access to both fiction and non-fiction texts from our school library and classroom reading areas. We also have a number of other initiatives that take place across the school to encourage reading for pleasure:

  • Dedicated library slots for each class, every week.
  • Lunchtime library club.
  • Reading books are available in the outdoor activity boxes for playtime.
  • Dedicated time for our Year 6 children to read to our Year 1 children.
  • Allocated story time (read by an adult) in every classroom, every day.
  • Book Week – a whole week of meeting authors, immersing in a book and completing a plethora of reading activities.

 

 

Things you can do at home to promote reading for pleasure:

To support your child in their development, we recommend that you spend at least 10 minutes every day reading with your child. This can be a combination of you listening to them read their school book, them listening to you read a story book or even taking it in turns. The sharing of reading is a valuable experience for you and child as it gives you the opportunity to discuss new vocabulary as well as characters, themes and even facts that a range of books can offer.

Here are some other things you can try:

  • Join your local library.
  • Match reading with your child’s interests.
  • All reading is good and should be celebrated.
  • Get comfortable while reading.
  • Ask lots of questions.
  • Read again and again (re-reading the same book helps to develop your child’s fluency and confidence).
  • Bedtime stories.

Useful links:

What to read

If you or your child is finding it difficult to know what to read, here are a few websites that might be useful:

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