Pathways to Read

Pathways to Read is a programme for teaching reading comprehension skills and developing reading fluency with a whole class.

There are 6 units per year group and each unit is designed to last for a half term.

Structure of Reading

We have a guided reading lesson every morning for 30 minutes where we read from our guided reading book for the half term and answer questions on what we have read. 

What Guided Reading looks like in the classroom:

Day 1: Whole class read (predict, clarify vocabulary, model fluency)
Day 2: Whole class read (fluency practice, retrieve, mastery focus)
Day 3: Independent Reading
Day 4: Follow up task
Day 5: Reading for pleasure (visit to the school library, class text, book club)

Autumn

This half term our guided reading is taken from the book 'Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls'.

We will read about heroic women throughout history, making inferences about context and culture based on the text.

Spring 1

This half term our guided reading will be focused on Hansel & Gretel by Neil Gaiman & Lorenzo Mattotti.

We will be reading this traditional tale and unpicking the language choices throughout.