Whole Class Reading

Whole class reading is placed very highly as part of the reading curriculum at St Michael with St John as it is where the explicit teaching of reading takes place.  Whole class reading across school takes place daily in all KS1 and KS2 classes and is led by the class teacher (Guided Reading takes place in Reception).  Each year group has an overview mapping out carefully selected texts for the year.  There is one text type allocated per week, which follows a cycle of fiction – non-fiction – poetry.  Each day has a focus on a different reading domain and the teaching sequence is as follows: