Reading
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You can access your child's reading at home by clicking the link below:
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Top tips for reading with your child
- Have them predict what might happen.
- Read it several times.
- Let them join in with familiar phrases.
- Retell it together.
- Talk about new words, the characters, the setting, how they feel, and their favourite part.
Enjoy reading together!
Book Recommendations
The School Reading List website have a range of books that they recommend for each school year, which have been carefully selected by both teachers and librarians. You can take a look at some of their top recommendation below:
Reception (Age 4-5)
- Where is the Dragon? - Leo Trimmers
- Baby Goz - Steve Weatherill
- Billy and the Beast - Nadia Shireen
- Funnybones - Allan Ahlberg
- Seahorses Are Sold Out - Katja Gehrmann and Constanze Spengler
Year 1 (Aged 5-6)
- That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown - Cressida Cowell and Neal Layton
- Numenia and the Hurricane - Fiona Halliday
- Cannamon - Neil Gaiman
- I Can Only Draw Worms - Will Mabbitt
- King of the Classroom - Derrick Barnes and Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Year 2 (Aged 6-7)
- Britannica First Big Book of Why - Sally Symes and Stephanie Warren Drimmer
- Inside the Villains - Clotilde Perrin
- Hattie and Olaf - Frida Nilsson
- Bug Belly Froggy Rescue - Paul Morton
- Salty Dogs - Matty Long
Year 3 (Age 7-8)
- Accidential Trouble Magnet - Zanib Mian
- The Nothing to See Here Hotel - Stevel Butler
- You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum! - Andy Stanton
- The Accidental Primer Minister - Tom McLaughlin
- Flyntlock Bones - The Eye of Mogdrod - Derek Keilty
Year 4 (Age 8-9)
- The Land of Roar - Jenny McLachlan
- The Monster Spotter's Handbook - Matt Cherry
- Edie and the Box of Flits - Kate Wilkinson
- Desirable - Frank Cottrell Boyce
- Varjak Paw - SF Said
Year 5 (Age 9-10)
- Malamander - Thomas Taylor
- Coming to England - Floella Benjamin
- Wolf Brother - Michelle Paver
- Who Let the Gods Out - Maz Evans
- The Violet Veil Mysteries - Sophie Cleverly
Year 6 (Age 10-11)
- The Boy At the Back of the Class - Onjali Rauf
- Nightfall in New York - Katherine Woodfine
- The Silly Book of Side-Splitting Stuff - Andy Seed
- Absolutely Everything - Christopher Lloyd
- A Boy Called Hope - Lara Williamson
