At the Crescent we are passionate about all our children becoming independent and enthusiastic readers, writers and spellers. Our Intent is to foster the love of reading by exposing pupils to a wide range of quality texts. The teacher’s enthusiasm for reading is one of the most important things that they do in their classroom.  It has a positive effect on reading achievement and the life-long love of reading.

As readers we encourage children to predict, retrieve, infer and summarise. We do this by weaving reading throughout the entire curriculum. 

CUSP Reading is deliberately designed to be ambitious and aspirational, ensuring that every child leaves our school as a competent, confident reader. Drawing on the latest research around explicit vocabulary instruction, reading fluency and key comprehension strategies, this curriculum is a synthesis of what we know works in helping children make outstanding progress in reading and a distillation into consistent, well-structured practice.

Pupils will receive a daily diet of excellent reading teaching and this will be supplemented by regular opportunities to engage with shared reading experiences, promoting the joy of reading with the whole school community. The clear structure and principles ensure that teaching is progressive, challenging and engaging and the rich, diverse literature spine acts as both a mirror so that every child can see themselves in the core texts and as a mirror to engage pupils with experiences beyond their own field of reference.