St Mary's C of E Primary School & Nursery

The quality of the texts children read is hugely important: well-written texts impact much more than just a child's reading fluency: their reading comprehension, their writing quality and their understanding of grammar will all be significantly improved through reading good texts. Age-appropriate, high-quality texts will... • expand children's vocabularies through introducing them to new words; • show them the impact of combining words into powerful phrases; • embed sentence structures in their memories, which they can replicate in their own writing; • enable them to experience effective punctuation and grammar; • and allow them to engage at a higher level with characters, plots and themes. A useful source of age-appropriate, high-quality texts can be found at the Book Trust - see the 'Reading' page in the 'Curriculum' section of our website for more information.