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Reading in Year 2

Posted: Sep 18, 2019 by: Emma Barker (EBarker) on: Class 2

We are settling into our new routine in Y2, which involves lots of opportunities to read. I thought it would be good to tell you all about them...

Children are encouraged to bring in their scheme book and reading record everyday. In our morning literacy carousel (Mon-Fri, 9-9:30am), one group of 6 children will change their books and read 1-to-1 with an adult. Another group of 6 children will read in a guided reading session with the teacher. This is a great opportunity to work on skills like prediction, sequencing, inference as well as expression, fluency and pace. This session is recorded in your child's reading on a specific guided reading slip which highlights everything we are looking for in a Year 2 reader. Obviously, these skills build up over time and we are unlikely to see all the targets in one session. In this same session, children have a chance to practise their handwriting; when they have finished they can have some quiet reading time and access the reading corner or my personal library. This book is proving very popular with the children...

We do an Everybody Reading In Class (ERIC) session on Monday afternoons and the library is accessed on a Wednesday. In the library, the children always chose their own books, so sometimes these maybe above their level of reading. Please read these to/with your child as you see fit. 

We grab every opportunity to read! Children can read from the board, read out their own work, read instructions/questions in other subject like maths and history. In Year 2, we love to read! 

Thank you for supporting your child with their reading journey, although we have all these opportunities to read in school, nothing beats cuddling up for a bedtime story at home! 

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