Reading for Pleasure
Reading for Pleasure and Reading Pledge
In response to parent and child surveys and informed by the significant amount of research identifying the benefits of reading for pleasure, Eltham Church of England School has a ‘Reading Pledge’. We are committed to reading for pleasure and alongside our taught curriculum, children have the opportunity to immerse themselves in high quality fiction through our class libraries. Our ‘Reading Pledge’ aims to make Reading for Pleasure central in our children’s lives and through our curriculum, classroom environments and links with families we nurture a love of reading.
Events to support this may include:
- story teller visits;
- author visits;
- Reading festival day where children wore their PJ’s to school;
- book fairs;
- planned whole school reading events that take place across the school year including: National Poetry Day (Oct), Contemporary Multicultural Week (Oct), National Story Telling Week (Jan/Feb), International Book Giving Day (Feb), Reading Festival (Mar), World Book Day (Mar), Lollies Shortlist (Apr);
- our ‘Reading Rainforest Library’ also promotes a love of reading and classes are timetabled to use the ‘Reading Rainforest’ on a weekly basis.
- children are given the opportunity in every year group to visit the Eltham Centre Library every two weeks where they are able to take out books of their choice.
“I love story time because my teacher uses different voices.”
Year 4 child
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Recommended Reads
Please find below some links to recommended reads for each year group taken from the booksfortopics website.