Reading Recommended books and what we are reading in class

We use jolly phonics to support our teaching of Letters and Sounds as well as interactive games from websites like Phonics Play and other online resources.

We have the following resources to aid phonics and reading:

Big Cat Phonics

Big Cat Letters and Sounds,

Oxford Reading Tree Floppy Phonics,

Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds books

Oxford Reading Tree traditional tales

Then in our free choice selections we have non phonic Oxford Reading Tree books and a few books from other schemes such as Discovery World.

Recommended Book Lists - HOW MANY have you read? Let your class teacher know which ones you've completed!

(Coming soon)

In Year 1, we are reading lots of different books linked to our topics AND we are working our way through '100 Books to Read in KS1!

In Year 2, we are reading:

Hummingbirds - The lion, the witch and the wardrobe by CS Lewis AND we are working our way through '100 Books to Read in KS1!

Toucans - Rave Boy by Pippa Goodhart

In Year 3, we are reading:

Swifts - Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling;

Robins - Dragons in Crumbling Castle by Terry Pratchett

In Year 4, we are reading:

Badgers - Charlie & the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl; (Varjak Paw next!)

Otters - Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo

Hares - Harry Potter by JK Rowling

In Year 5, we are reading:

Giraffes - Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo & Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce; We have FINISHED - The Twits & The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl; They Flying Classroom by Eric Kastner; Clockwork by Phillip Pullman

Zebras - Boy by Roald Dahl & Cosmic by FC Boyce; We have FINISHED - The Twits by Roald Dahl

In Year 6, we are reading:

Penguins - The Middler by Kirsty Applebaum; We have FINISHED - The boy at the back of the class by Onjali Q Rauf; Stitch Head by Guy Bass

Turtles - Room 13 by Robert Swindells; We have FINISHED - The boy at the back of the class by Onjali Q Rauf; There's a boy in the girl's bathroom by Louis Sachar

Dolphins - The Railway Children by E Nesbit; We have FINISHED Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling;