Our aim is to encourage a love of reading through experience of a wide range of reading material from story, pattern and rhyme and non-fiction books. The children experience shared reading and guided reading with the teacher as well as independent reading of familiar texts. Shared Reading involves the children exploring reading strategies and conventions through a shared text where they are taught about phonics, high frequency words, punctuation, grammar and spelling and sentence work. Guided Reading is a teaching technique where the teacher works with a group of approximately six children at a time and guides and supports them as they read the book. A variety of reading strategies are taught during guided reading. Independent Reading is when children choose their own books to read by themselves. Children are encouraged to re-read familiar books, rhymes and poems to foster and encourage independent reading and fluency.