Reading

Here at The Meadows Primary Academy, we want children to establish an appreciation and love of reading at all stages of their learning journey. We are committed to sharing high quality and vocabulary rich texts across the curriculum so that children may develop knowledge of themselves and the world in which they live. We believe that it is essential that children learn to read fluently and with good understanding and value reading as a key life skill. We encourage our children to discover new information and develop their comprehension skills by reading widely using both fiction and non-fiction texts which (where possible) are linked to their topics across the curriculum. By the time our children leave The Meadows Primary Academy, we envisage that they will be competent readers who can recommend books to their peers, seek out books from a range of different genres and engage in discussion about authorial choices or impact on the reader. Once our Children have unlocked the key to reading here with us at The Meadows, it is our intention that they will be able to apply their reading skills in order to access any subject in their secondary education and beyond