At Brookfield Park we understand the huge importance of supporting the development of a love of reading in all our children.

A love of reading is clearly well developed when a child has great word recognition and comprehension skills and also when the child loves to read in their spare time so that they can escape and travel to other worlds and interests. Reading also helps children to relax and unwind, therefore supporting their wellbeing.

We work on reading skills and promote the enjoyment of reading at school throughout all our English lessons, guided reading and throughout the teaching of other subjects. However it is so important that reading skills are also developed at home too - there is more information on our homework page as to what is expected for reading homework, however encouraging children to read all sorts of texts and genres is fantastic! Reading also helps to improve spelling, grammar, sentence construction and helps to develop their imaginative ideas for their own writing. 

Our Class Novel

In class we enjoy sharing class novels. These are engaging texts to encourage the fascination of books for the children and hopefully develop their own love of reading. Listening to class novels also develops the children's own reading stamina by listening to modelled reading for a sustained period of time. It also supports reading comprehension skills as classroom discussion about the characters, setting, plot and more takes place and subsequently promotes these skills.

Our class novels will sometimes be the text we are studying in English also. At other times they will be hand picked novels that will hopefully engage our children and open them to the possibilities of enjoying genres they may not have otherwise chosen to read..