Reading at Home

Reading for Pleasure

Families play a vital role in developing a love of reading. Reading regularly with your child, talking about stories, and sharing books together — even when children can read independently — all support enjoyment and understanding. Making reading part of everyday life and showing children that you enjoy reading too helps build positive reading habits.

Together, we can help every child at Kirton Primary School grow into a confident reader who reads for pleasure, curiosity and joy.

Support with Phonics and Reading

Supporting your child’s phonics and reading at home plays an important role in their progress and confidence. We encourage families to read regularly with their child and to practise phonics skills that are taught in school, helping to reinforce learning and build fluency.

Children will bring home reading books that are closely matched to their current phonics knowledge, ensuring they can practise reading with success. We ask that families read with their child little and often, offering praise and encouragement as they build confidence.

Reading completed at home should be logged using BoomReader, which allows us to celebrate children’s reading achievements and monitor progress. Regular updates on BoomReader help us to support your child effectively and ensure strong communication between home and school.

If you have any questions about phonics, reading books, or using BoomReader, please speak to your child’s class teacher, who will be happy to help.

Kirton Primary School follows the ‘Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised’ scheme to teach daily phonics sessions in Reception and Year 1. This systematic, synthetic phonics programme follows a clear sequence in order to support our children to learn how to blend for reading and segment to spell. We carefully match your child’s reading book to their phonic stage using the ‘Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised’ books. Each week, our children are supported to develop skills in decoding, reading with expression and comprehension.