Dedicated Storytime

At Boughton Leigh Infant School our children have story time every single day at the end of the afternoon. As a school we have carefully selected quality and engaging stories, poems and non-fiction texts to provide our children with a wide range of texts. As RWI trained teachers we adopt our taught strategies to deliver our reading with enjoyment and enthusiasm to draw children into the text and vocabulary.

Our story time books have been chosen to ensure they meet at least one of the following objectives:

a. Elicit a response: curiosity, anger, excitement, enjoyment, amusement, interest,

b. Have a strong narrative

c. Extend vocabulary (not too many new words at once)

d. Connect with something they know/ we’re teaching

e. Use illustrations to support the narrative

f. Reflect children from a minority ethnic background

We have created a storytime map for each year group to ensure full coverage of a range of exciting and engaging texts.

Book Corners

Our book corners have carefully been designed by our imaginative staff to help promote a love of reading, with each year group having their own theme. The books that we have shared and explored together during ‘story time’ are then displayed on our front facing shelves for the children to read and enjoy again. Books our chosen for all children: those who are still learning to read will retell the story; those who are able to read, will re-read the story. We have a working wall where we can add out thoughts about a book we have all read. We limit the number of books on display and in our book boxes at a time so that we ensure children can easily access the books and are not overwhelmed. More books are introduced over the half term and others taken out at the term progresses.