Topic outline

  • Key Resources

  • Reading audit September 2022

    The audit contains key questions for consideration. 

    This is an editable blank master to enable schools to audit their reading provision across the school in the following areas:

    • Early Years
    • Phonics
    • Listening to pupils read
    • Reading for pleasure
    • Reading culture
    • Assessment
    • Interventions
    • Quality of resources
    • Parental engagement
    • Pupil voice
    • Enrichment


  • Phonic Readers and Book Band Guidance

    Early reading has a prominent position within the new OFSTED Education Inspection Framework (September 2019).   This document develops understanding and supports teachers to make decisions in the following areas:

    Early reading and Ofsted

    Beyond phonics

    • Book Bands

     Which book and why?

    • Assessment
    • Text characteristics

  • 20 Texts Under 200 Pages Suitable for Year 6

  • From paired reading to reciprocal reading, from whole class to individual, this document outlines the advantages and disadvantages of each.