Reading Incentives

Reading is prioritised at Dudley Wood. To encourage pupils to read or to celebrate them reading, teachers develop and use a range of incentives:

• Reader of the Month - Reception to Year 6 join in with the whole school’s reading incentive: Reader of the Month, where teachers choose a pupil to award a certificate and book to, for their obvious interest in, and enjoyment of, books; or their effort or improvement in reading

• World Book Day - when we enjoy dressing up as favourite book characters or wearing a T-Shirt with a quote from a favourite book, as well as completing a range of fun activities linked to a book. Pupils have the opportunity to buy books from the Scholastic Book Fair during the week.

• Author Visits

• Weekly class award - Each child's total number of reading at home is added to a class total, the class with the greatest total receive golden time. 

• Daily story / novel time 

• Reading workshops for parents and carers

• Reading displays around school

• Reading corners in classrooms

• "What we're reading" displayed on classroom doors

• Reading section on fortnightly newsletters

• Reading into writing sequences of high quality texts

• Pre-loved book sale

We are in the process of updating texts in our classroom reading corners. 

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