Reading Spine 2021-22 

The children are provided with a rich reading curriculum throughout their journey at Oakham. Our group reading sessions, class novels and independent reading all designed to foster and encourage a love of reading and expose children to a rich and varied diet of stories from many genres, times and cultures.

Class teachers will also use extracts from many other texts and authors as stimuli for writing units as well as others linked to topics in the wider curriculum.

Year 1

To support the transition to KS1, children will read and listen to  a range of works form the following authors:

J.Duddle

J.Donaldson

E.Carr

Traditional Tales & Fairy Stories

Year 2 

The Tunnel  

Dear Greenpeace  

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs 

Harry the Poisonous Centipede's Big Adventure 

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me 

Year 3 

Mr Gum 

13 Story Treehouse  

Stig of the Dump.  

Why the Whales Came 

The Firework Maker’s Daughter 

Esio Trot 

Year 4 

The Iron Man 

How to Train Your Dragon 

Clockwork 

The Snow-Walkers Son 

Year 5 

Kensuke’s Kingdom 

Beetle Boy 

The Explorer 

Year 6 

Selection of Real Reads including: 

 A Christmas Carol, Frankenstein, Dracula, Moby Dick, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, A Study in Scarlett, All Quiet on the Western Front, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Great Expectations, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, Jane Eyre, Les Miserables, Oliver Twist, Silas Marner, South, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Moonstone, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Sign of the Four, The Time Machine, The Woman in White, The War of the Worlds, Tom Sawyer, Wuthering Heights,  

Spelling at Oakham 

Our Ethos

We strive to make the teaching of spelling both enjoyable and purposeful. It is our hope that no child will leave school with gaps in their spelling knowledge but instead embark on the next steps along their educational journey full of confidence and ambition. Our aims include:

• embedding knowledge
• developing personal spelling strengths
• stimulating curiosity about word discovery
• promoting responsible application during independent learning
• testing playing a reduced role
• developing vocabulary
• removing fear