English - Reading
Has your child just started school?
Click the link below for some handy hints on how to support reading at home:
What books could my child be reading at home?
Reception:
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
Rosie’s Walk,
Each Peach Pear Plum
Traditional Rhymes and Stories
The little Red Hen
Dear Zoo
The Hungry Caterpillar
One Snowy Night
The Gruffalo
Owl Babies
Not Now, Bernard
Farmer Duck
The Rainbow Fish
Guess how much I love you
Counting Books
Rosie’s Walk
Handa’s Surprise
Year 1:
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch Cats Sleep Anywhere
The Jolly Postman Puss in Boots
Once Upon a Time RR SuperKid
The ding dong bag Where the Wild Things Are
The Bog Baby Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star
Tadpole’s Promise Trees
Amazing Grace Hansel and Gretel
Hairy Maclary Jabouti the tortiose
Charlie and Lola Books on Carnivals
The Gruffalo’s Child Plants and Animals
Funny Bones Materials
The true story of the three little pigs The Human Body
The giant turnip Books on choices
Year 2:
Aristotle
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark
Flat Stanley
Hansel and Gretel
Owl and the Pussy Cat
Plop
Flotsam
The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy
The Wishing Tree series Enid Blyton (Links to heritage)
The Garden by Dan Sheldon,
Pirate School: Just a bit of Wind – Jeremy Strong Books
Mr Wolf’s Pancakes
Spy Dog
My Naughty Little Sister
Mini Winnie
The best of Pippi Longstocking
Captain Underpants
Year 3:
Leon and the Place Between
Bill’s New Frock
The Hodgeheg
The Polar Express
Michael Rosen poems
The Tunnel by Anthony Browne
Gorilla by Anthony Browne
Mr Potter’s Pet by King Smith
Wonders of Egypt
Aesop’s Fables by Geraldine McCaughhrean
Tuesday by David Wiesner
Horrid Henry series
Mr Gum
Stuart Little
Bills New Frock
Animal Ark Series
Books by Roald Dahl – Twits, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda and Fantastic Mr Fox
Year 4:
Books by Roald Dahl – BFG and James and the Giant Peach
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Varjak Paw
Stig of the dump
The Roman Mysteries by C.Lawrence
The Firework Maker’s Daughter
Please Mrs Butler by Alan Ahlberg
The Railway Children by E.Nesbit
The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe
Greogory Cool
Dragon Poems
Beast Quest Series by Adam Blade
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky
A pot of Gold
Year 5:
Friend or Foe
Voices in the Park
Krindlekrax
Oranges in No Man’s Land
The Highwayman
Street Child,
Silas Marner (Children’s version – Oxford Classics),
Harry Potter
How to train a Dragon
Holes
The Demond Headmaster
Black Beauty
The story of Tracy Beaker
The Secret Garden
The Wind in the Willows
Little Women
Grandpa Chatterji
A Christmas Carol
Mr Stink
Year 6:
Northern Lights
My War Diary
Tom’s Midnight Garden
Ruby in the Smoke
Erica’s Story
Skellig
Silversword
How to Live Forever
Canterbury Tales -Usborne classics retold
Iron Man by Ted Hughes/Iron Woman by Ted Hughes
Eye of the Wolf by Daniel Pennac
Artemis Fowl
Treasure Island
Carrie’s War
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Oliver Twist
The Borrowers
The Railway Children
LionBoy
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾
Lower Key Stage 3:
Kit's Wilderness
River Boy
Billy Elliot
The London Eye Mystery
Skullduggery Pleasant
The Hobbit
The sword in the stone
Stargirl
Wolf Brothers
Secrets of the Fearless
The adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Truckers
The wind singer
Framed
Tales of the unexpected
