Fluency is a key priority in our reading provision. We use strategies informed by Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) guidance on reading fluency and the work of Dr Tim Rasinski. These approaches help children become more accurate, confident and expressive readers. As reading becomes more fluent, children are better placed to understand what they read, engage with increasingly challenging texts and enjoy their reading.

Fluency reading is taught whole-class through a consistent weekly cycle. Each week, children read and revisit the same high-quality text across five days — building familiarity with vocabulary, structure and meaning, and moving beyond decoding towards deeper understanding.

Across the week, the cycle moves through text marking (exploring phrasing, punctuation and expression), fluency and vocabulary work (building accuracy, automaticity and word knowledge), Reading Theatre (developing expression, prosody and confidence through performance), a focused VIPERS comprehension skill, and finally comprehension questions where children apply their skills independently.

Our approach to comprehension is supported by VIPERS:

• Vocabulary: Understanding the meaning and effect of words and phrases.

• Inference: Reading between the lines and using evidence to explain ideas.

• Prediction: Using clues from the text to anticipate what might happen.

• Explain: Exploring and explaining an author's choices and their effects.

• Retrieval: Locating and selecting information from a text.

• Summarise and sequence: Identifying key information and organising events or ideas.