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Reading With Your Child
Reading for pleasure
We are passionate about books and reading at Manor Oak Primary School. Every child is encouraged to read for pleasure. In Key Stage 1 classrooms, cosy reading corners provide a relaxing environment for children to explore books. Every year group is also read to daily, enabling children to listen to and access rich and exciting books.
After Christmas, a new library will be opening at Manor Oak, containing the latest books by some of the best children’s authors. The School Council have come up with lots of super ideas for this new area. Once again, the idea of reading for pleasure has inspired it and so it will be filled with beanbags and cushions and will be a relaxing area for the children to use. Every year group will have the opportunity to use it during lunchtimes and it will also be used at times during Literacy lessons.
Reading at home with your child
We recommend that you read with your child at home every evening for a minimum of 20 minutes, discussing the story, the words and pictures as you go. This helps to build your child’s confidence as a reader and provides valuable reading practise. Your child’s Read and Respond book is perfect for this as it is chosen especially for them taking into account their reading ability.
Further reading
Below, are further lists of books that your child might like to read or you might like to read to your child. Each reading list has a mixture of fiction, non-fiction and poetry books. There are books belonging to many different genres: humour, adventure, fantasy, sports, myths and legends and books from favourite authors.
Nursery
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Some dogs do |
Jez Alborough |
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The Smartest Giant in Town |
Julia Donaldson |
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Penguin |
Polly Dunbar |
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You Choose! |
Pippa Goodhart and Nick Sharratt |
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Shark in the Park! |
Nick Sharratt |
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Alfie and the Big Boys |
Shirley Hughes |
Reception
Years 1 and 2
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Funny bones The Jolly Postman |
Allan Ahlberg |
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A Bear Called Paddington |
Michael Bond |
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Mister Magnolia |
Quentin Blake |
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We're Going On a Bear Hunt |
Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury |
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Where the Wild Things Are |
Maurice Sendak |
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Amazing Grace |
Mary Hoffman |
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The Cat in the Hat |
Dr Seuss |
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Leon and the Place Between |
Angela McAllister, Grahame Baker-Smith |
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Avocado Baby |
John Burningham |
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The Little Red Hen |
Paul Galdone |
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Katie Morag Series |
Mairi Hedderwick |
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Charlie and Lola |
Lauren Child |
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The Princess and the Pea |
Minnie Grey |
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The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch |
Ronda and David Armitage |
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Three by the Sea |
Mini Grey |
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T.Rex |
Vivian French and Alison Bartlett |
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Friends |
Kim Lewis |
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The Dunderheads |
Paul Fleischman |
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Cat and Mouse Story |
Michael Rosen |
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The Magic Finger |
Roald Dahl |
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The Diary Of a Killer Cat |
Anne Fine |
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How the World Works |
Christiane Dorion |
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One Night in the Zoo |
Judith Kerr |
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Pirate School: Just a Bit of Wind |
Jeremy Strong |
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The First Encyclopaedia of Science The First Encyclopaedia of the Human Body |
Usborne Books
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The Guard Dog Emily’s Legs |
Dick King-Smith |
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The Frog Prince |
Sally Gardener |
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Little Wolf’s Book of Badness |
Ian Whybrow |
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The Lonely Beast |
Chris Judge |
Years 3 and 4
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Flat Stanley |
Jeff Brown |
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Alien tea on planet Zum-Zee |
Tony Mitton and Guy Parker-Rees |
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Bill’s New Frock |
Anne Fine |
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Captain Underpants series |
Dav Pilkey |
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Please Mrs Butler, Seriously Silly Series |
Allan Ahlberg |
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Billy The Bird |
Dick King Smith |
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The Dinosaurs Diary |
Julia Donaldson |
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Tongue Twisters and Tonsil Twizzlers |
Paul Cookson |
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Rescuing Dad, How to Train Your Parents, My Friend’s a Werewolf |
Pete Johnson |
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The Big Match / Time Rangers series |
Rob Childs |
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Charlottes Web |
EB White |
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Horrid Henry series |
Francesca Simon |
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Ms Wiz series |
Terence Blackman |
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Explode |
Jeremy Strong |
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Robin Hood |
Marcia Williams |
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The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark |
Jill Tomlinson |
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The Iron Man |
Ted Hughes |
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Stig of the Dump |
Clive King |
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Revolting Rhymes |
Roald Dahl |
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The Hundred-mile-an-hour Dog |
Jeremy Strong |
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Just William |
Richmal Crompton |
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The Demon Headmaster |
Gillian Cross |
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The Worst Witch |
Jill Murphy, Julia Eccleshare |
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
Lewis Carroll, Philip Pullman |
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George’s Marvellous Medicine, The Twits |
Roald Dahl |
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Orchard Book of Aesop’s Fables |
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Mouse Noses on Toast |
Daren King |
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The Sheep-pig |
Dick King-Smith |
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Why is Snot Green? |
The Science Museum Question and Answer Book Glenn Murphy |
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The Butterfly Lion |
Michael Morpurgo |
Years 5 and 6
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Tudor Terror |
Terry Deary |
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Malory Towers |
Enid Blyton |
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The Invisible Detective series |
Justin Richards |
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Dragon books |
Cressida Cowell |
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Goosebumps |
R. L. Stine |
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A Time of Fire |
Robert Westall |
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Angel for May |
Melvin Burgess |
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Flour Babies |
Anne Fine |
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Horrible History |
Horrible Geography series |
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Matilda, BFG, Danny the Champion of the World, Boy, Witches |
Roald Dahl |
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Goodnight Mr Tom |
Michelle Magorian |
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Dragon Rider |
Cornelia Funke |
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Thief! |
Malorie Blackman |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid (The last straw) |
Jeff Kinney |
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The Jungle Book |
Rudyard Kipling |
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Tracy Beaker, Best Friends, Secrets, Midnight |
Jacqueline Wilson |
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A Christmas Carol |
Charles Dickens |
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The Borrowers |
Mary Norton |
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Peter Pan |
JM Barry |
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Skellig |
David Almond |
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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase |
Joan Aiken |
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The Runaways |
Ruth Thomas |
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Stormbreaker |
Anthony Horowitz |
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Harry Potter |
J. K. Rowling |
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Superfudge |
Judy Blume |
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The Indian in the Cupboard |
Lynne Read Banks |
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Super Soccer Boy |
Judy Brown |
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Friend or Foe, Mr Nobody’s Eyes |
Michael Morpurgo |
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Ballet Shoes |
Noel Streatfield |
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Narnia |
C. S. Lewis |