Love of Reading

At Eastwood Village, the children have time to listen to their class teacher, or a guest reader, read high quality texts to them in class on a daily basis. This means that during the academic year, children get to listen and experience a variety of high-quality texts being read to them in a manner that models good habits and techniques.

We prioritise opportunities that supports reading for pleasure during our daily time tables. Reading for pleasure means any reading that is primarily for enjoyment. This includes: books, magazines, comics, poems, picture books, newspapers as well as fiction novels. Research has shown that reading for pleasure can result in increased empathy, improved relationships with others, improved wellbeing and an increased insight into the view and opinions of others.  As a school, we know that young children who enjoy reading independently will have had a door opened to new discoveries and wider interests as well as to new knowledge, creativity and confidence. We believe Reading for Pleasure is of the utmost importance and it is something that we actively and continuously promote in many different ways throughout our school. We have lots of areas in class rooms and around school where children are able to choose books and take them home. During our daily breakfast club, families are welcome to access the library and enjoy a story or two. Children at Eastwood love sharing stories that they have read in class with their families, you see their faces light up with enjoyment in these special moments. We encourage older siblings to read with their younger family members at ‘love of reading’ sessions. We also hold many Reading events to promote the importance of authors and their influences. These include event days which the children thoroughly enjoy , for example the famous World book day!

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