Today was World Book Day and we had a fantastic day celebrating all things reading! The theme for this year was reading for pleasure. We want all our children to develop a love and a passion for reading and we discussed lots of different ways we can encourage this.
We started the day by doing a class swap with Reception. Your children each paired up with a child from Reception to share their love of reading. It was lovely to watch them read together and share their favourite books with each other. It was also a great opportunity for Year 4 to demonstrate their oracy (speaking and listening) skills as they made sure they were reading with prosody and clarity. We were all wowed by Reception’s incredible reading!
We then joined the BBC World Book Day live lesson where we discussed reading for pleasure and sharing how we like to read.
We also had time for your children to discuss their favourite books and favourite characters with their peers and share with the class what they’d dressed up as. Everybody looked amazing!
Overall, we had a fantastic day in Year 4 and look forward to the Book Fair coming 16th-18th March to spend our £1 book tokens!
Help at home: read daily with your children to continue developing their love of reading as well as their fluency.