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

Some dogs do	Jez Alborough
The Smartest Giant in Town	Julia Donaldson
Penguin	Polly Dunbar
You Choose!	Pippa Goodhart and Nick Sharratt
Shark in the Park!	Nick Sharratt
Alfie and the Big Boys	Shirley Hughes

Reception

Years 1 and 2

Funny bones The Jolly Postman	Allan Ahlberg
A Bear Called Paddington	Michael Bond
Mister Magnolia	Quentin Blake
We're Going On a Bear Hunt	Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury
Where the Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak
Amazing Grace	Mary Hoffman
The Cat in the Hat	Dr Seuss
Leon and the Place Between	Angela McAllister, Grahame Baker-Smith
Avocado Baby	John Burningham
The Little Red Hen	Paul Galdone
Katie Morag Series	Mairi Hedderwick
Charlie and Lola	Lauren Child
The Princess and the Pea	Minnie Grey
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch	Ronda and David Armitage
Three by the Sea	Mini Grey
T.Rex	Vivian French and Alison Bartlett
Friends	Kim Lewis
The Dunderheads	Paul Fleischman
Cat and Mouse Story	Michael Rosen
The Magic Finger	Roald Dahl
The Diary Of a Killer Cat	Anne Fine
How the World Works	Christiane Dorion
One Night in the Zoo	Judith Kerr
Pirate School: Just a Bit of Wind	Jeremy Strong
The First Encyclopaedia of Science The First Encyclopaedia of the Human Body	Usborne Books
The Guard Dog Emily’s Legs	Dick King-Smith
The Frog Prince	Sally Gardener
Little Wolf’s Book of Badness	Ian Whybrow
The Lonely Beast	Chris Judge

Years 3 and 4

Flat Stanley	Jeff Brown
Alien tea on planet Zum-Zee	Tony Mitton and Guy Parker-Rees
Bill’s New Frock	Anne Fine
Captain Underpants series	Dav Pilkey
Please Mrs Butler, Seriously Silly Series	Allan Ahlberg
Billy The Bird	Dick King Smith
The Dinosaurs Diary	Julia Donaldson
Tongue Twisters and Tonsil Twizzlers	Paul Cookson
Rescuing Dad, How to Train Your Parents, My Friend’s a Werewolf	Pete Johnson
The Big Match / Time Rangers series	Rob Childs
Charlottes Web	EB White
Horrid Henry series	Francesca Simon
Ms Wiz series	Terence Blackman
Explode	Jeremy Strong
Robin Hood	Marcia Williams
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark	Jill Tomlinson
The Iron Man	Ted Hughes
Stig of the Dump	Clive King
Revolting Rhymes	Roald Dahl
The Hundred-mile-an-hour Dog	Jeremy Strong
Just William	Richmal Crompton
The Demon Headmaster	Gillian Cross
The Worst Witch	Jill Murphy, Julia Eccleshare
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll, Philip Pullman
George’s Marvellous Medicine, The Twits	Roald Dahl
Orchard Book of Aesop’s Fables
Mouse Noses on Toast	Daren King
The Sheep-pig	Dick King-Smith
Why is Snot Green?	The Science Museum Question and Answer Book Glenn Murphy
The Butterfly Lion	Michael Morpurgo

Years 5 and 6

Tudor Terror	Terry Deary
Malory Towers	Enid Blyton
The Invisible Detective series	Justin Richards
Dragon books	Cressida Cowell
Goosebumps	R. L. Stine
A Time of Fire	Robert Westall
Angel for May	Melvin Burgess
Flour Babies	Anne Fine
Horrible History	Horrible Geography series
Matilda, BFG, Danny the Champion of the World, Boy, Witches	Roald Dahl
Goodnight Mr Tom	Michelle Magorian
Dragon Rider	Cornelia Funke
Thief!	Malorie Blackman
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (The last straw)	Jeff Kinney
The Jungle Book	Rudyard Kipling
Tracy Beaker, Best Friends, Secrets, Midnight	Jacqueline Wilson
A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens
The Borrowers	Mary Norton
Peter Pan	JM Barry
Skellig	David Almond
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase	Joan Aiken
The Runaways	Ruth Thomas
Stormbreaker	Anthony Horowitz
Harry Potter	J. K. Rowling
Superfudge	Judy Blume
The Indian in the Cupboard	Lynne Read Banks
Super Soccer Boy	Judy Brown
Friend or Foe, Mr Nobody’s Eyes	Michael Morpurgo
Ballet Shoes	Noel Streatfield
Narnia	C. S. Lewis

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