Reading and guided reading policies (primary)

What to include

Your reading and/or guided reading policies should set out how you teach reading in your school. There's no set format, and this isn't an exhaustive list, but it's good practice for these policies to include:

• Reading aims and intentions, including:
• Why it’s important to teach reading
• What you'd expect your pupils to achieve by the time they leave school
• Strategies used to teach reading, guided reading and phonics across the school
• How reading is planned 
• How teachers assess reading 
• How pupils with additional needs receive extra support

Note: although maintained schools are required to follow the National Curriculum while academies aren't, the reading and guided reading policies for both types of school are often quite similar.

Examples of reading policies

• Crackley Bank Primary School in Staffordshire
• St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Primary School in Gateshead
• Southfields Primary School in Peterborough

Minster in Sheppey Primary School in Kent  Petersfield Church of England Aided