Over the past couple of years we have been promoting reading. We want your child to have more than the ability to read… we want them to have a love of reading!
Imagine a primary school where over 7 or 8 years, children are read to, enjoy, discuss and work with around 82 core books. These ‘essential reads’ would be a store of classics, creating a living library inside a child’s mind. This is the ‘Reading Spine’.
The ‘Reading Spine’ has been created by Pie Corbett – a guru of children’s learning in English. His work underpins a lot of the ways teachers approach their work.
Please have a read of the ‘Reading Spine’ information. We plan to use the books in every year group over the school year. If you would buy these books for your children that would be brilliant. By the time they get to Year 6 they will have read 82 of the most fantastic books available to children in school and at home.
The teachers will be working their way through the books in the list in order. They will be using them as class readers, guided reading books and even sometimes as a focus for literacy work. We will be sending out information on how to buy through school soon. Until then, watch out for the titles! They are really popular books and you may have quite a few in the house already!
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Please click on the link to have a look! or go to the Website (click here).
Nursery (Click Here)
Where’s Spot?
Dear Zoo
You Choose
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?
Jasper’s Beanstalk
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy
Each Peach Pear Plum
Hug
The Train Ride
Come on, Daisy!
Reception (Click Here)
Owl Babies
The Gruffalo
Handa’s Surprise
Mr Gumpy’s Outing
Rosie’s Walk
Six Dinner Sid
Mrs Armitage
Whatever Next
On the Way Home
Farmer Duck
Goodnight Moon
Shhh!
Year 1 (Click Here)
Peace at Last
Can’t You Sleep Little Bear?
Where the Wild Things Are
The Elephant and the Bad Baby
Avocado Baby
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Lost and Found
Knuffle Bunny
Beegu
Dogger
Cops and Robbers
Elmer
Year 2 (Click Here)
Traction Man is Here
Meerkat Mail
Amazing Grace
Pumpkin Soup
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Book?
Dr Xargle’s Book of Earthlets
Not Now Bernard
Tuesday
The Flower
Gorilla
Emily Brown and the Thing
Frog and Toad Together
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark
The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Hodgeheg
Flat Stanley
Willa and old Miss Annie
Year 3 (Click Here)
The Iron Man
Cat Tales: Ice Cat
The Sheep-Pig
The Abominables
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Battle of Bubble and Squeak
Hansel and Gretel
Year 4 (Click Here)
Bill’s New Frock
Charlotte’s Web
Why the Whales Came
The Firework-Maker’s Daughter
The Snow Walker’s Son
Perry Angel’s Suitcase
Voices in the Park
Year 5 (Click Here)
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Varjak Paw
Wolf Brother
Street Child
The Midnight Fox
Tom’s Midnight Garden
FArTHER
Year 6 (Click Here)
Holes
Clockwork
The Hobbit
Skellig
Fireweed
River Boy
The Arrival