Reading at Home
Community Library
When you visit school, please make use of our Community Library. There are books for all ages to swap, donate or borrow. Please take one home with you to enjoy reading at home.
Rewarding Reading
Pupils will regularly be entered into a prize draw for a chance to use our reading vending machine.
Why is Reading for Pleasure so important?
Reading for pleasure:
- Improves language and comprehension skills. This is vital at secondary school as young people work towards their GCSEs which have high demand for both skills no matter what the subject.
- Helps to build empathy for others
- Supports wellbeing
‘Reading has been linked with better grades in school as well as higher levels of concentration when studying. Also linked to reading is an improved ability to pay attention and work independently without distraction. These are both skills which are essential when learning new material or working on homework!
Reading for pleasure is a factor in predicting later academic achievement. Children who read for pleasure are more likely to enjoy learning, succeed at school and achieve good levels of education. They also have higher levels of self-esteem, confidence, and problem-solving skills than those who do not read frequently.’
https://readingmate.co.uk/reading-for-pleasure/
WHAT CAN YOU DO AT HOME?
- Reading at home can include listening to your child read, reading with your child, or simply making sure they are given the opportunity to read independently. This can be as little as reading an article aloud to reading whole texts together.
- Encourage your child to read a wide range of materials:
- Newspaper articles
- Blogs
- TV and movie subtitles
- Short stories
- Whole novels
- Graphic novels and autobiographies can often engage even the most reluctant of readers
- Test your child when they have spellings to learn and encourage them to look up definitions of unfamiliar vocabulary
- Encourage your child to check their written work for errors and proofread
- Be as helpful as you can in helping your child write. Talk through their ideas with them; help them discover what they want to say
In school, we have multiple libraries situated around the building, as well as the community library which accepts donations, book exchanges and borrowing.
In the local community the library is situated in the shopping centre:
https://yourlibrary.knowsley.gov.uk/branches/prescot/
All pupils will get an opportunity to visit during their time at the Prescot School to help promote life-long reading.
https://yourlibrary.knowsley.gov.uk/branches/huyton/
Suggested Reading:
It is worth noting that children’s comprehension skills improve on second or third reads of a book. They stop having to concentrate unfamiliar vocabulary and notice author’s craft more readily. Please feel free to pre-read texts or read alongside with our curriculum and form time reading. We will regularly post on our Twitter page what is being read.
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Opportunity to read a range of academic essays to support learning and to re-read core texts in preparation for GCSE |
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Pupils will read a range of extracts to inspire and empower reading. Including: A Series of Unfortunate Incident – Lemony Snicket Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Hadden Watership Down – Richard Adams War Horse – Michael Morpurgo Black Beauty – Anna Sewell The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain Short stories Two Verse Novels Love Love -Victoria Change The Lost Boy in the Maze – Joseph Coelho |
Pupils will read a range of extracts to inspire and empower reading. Including: Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle The Book Thief – Markus Zusak The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins The Woman in Black – Susan Hill Two Verse Novels: Weight of Water – Sarah Crossan Booked – Kwame Alexander
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Pupils will read a range of extracts to inspire and empower reading. Including: Half Blood – Sally Green Nutshell – Ian McEwan Cosmicomics – Italo Calvino I am Legend – Richard Matheson 1984 – George Orwell Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen Two Verse Novels: Crossing the Line – Tia Fisher We Come Apart – Brian Conaghan and Sarah Crossan
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Pupils will read a range of extracts to inspire and empower reading. Including: My Name is Red – Orham Pamuk The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams The Princess Bride – William Goldman The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern Two Verse Novels: One – Sarah Crossan Black Flamingo – Dean Atta
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Pupils will read a range of extracts to empower reading and support academic development.
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Reading at home |
Boy Everywhere - A.M.Dassu The Goldfish Boy - Lisa Thompson You are a Champion - Marcus Rashford A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness When Life Gives You Mangoes - Kereen Getten October, October - Katya Balen 101 Dalmatians - Dodie Smith Percy Jackson series - Rick Riordan The Star Outside My Window - Onjali Q. Rauf Skulduggery Pleasant Series - Derek Palmer The London Eye Mystery - Siobhan Dowd Treasure Island - Robert Lois Stevenson Armistice Runner - Tom Palmer Boy - Roald Dahl Wonder – R J Palacio Goodnight Mr. Tom – Michelle Magorian The Falcon’s Malteser - Anthony Horowitz |
Find Layla - Meg Ellison Ghost Boys - Jewell Parker Rhodes Kiss of Death - Malcolm Rose The Wordsmith - Patricia Forde Northern Lights Trilogy - Philip Pulman Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – John Boyd Gangsta Rap – Benjamin Zephaniah The Sign of 4 - Arthur Conran Doyle The Woman in Black – Susan Hill Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle You Should See Me in a Crown, Leah Johnson Mortal Engines, Phillip Pullman The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak The Hunger Games (series), Suzanne Collins |
The Boy Who Steals Houses - C.G.Drews It's Trevor Noah Born a Crime - Trevor Noah I Know You Did It - Sue Wallman Kiss the Dust - Elizabeth Laird Oranges in No-Man’s Land - Elizabeth Laird Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman and sequels Rule of One, Rule of All, Rule of Many (trilogy) - Ashleigh and Leslie Saunders Cane Warriors - Alex Wheatle My Name is Leon - Kit De Waal Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones As Long Lemon the Trees Grow - Zoulfa Katouh These Infinite Threads, Taherah Mafi Frankenstein - Mary Shelley My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line – Deepa Anappara
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House of Hollow - Krystal Sutherland The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton I Must Betray You - Ruta Sepetys We Were Liars - E. Lockhart James Acaster’s Classic Scrapes The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas Come on up – Angie Thomas Lanny – Max Porter Phone Box at the End of the World - Laura Imai Messina The Fault in Our Stars – John Greene Different for Boys, Patrick Ness (graphic novel) Looking for Alaska – John Greene Wuthering Heights – Charlotte Bronte
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The Kite Runner -Khaled Hosseini How it All Blew Up -Arvin Ahmadi The Five: Untold lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper - Hallie Rubenhold I'll give you the Sun – Jandy Nelson A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini The Long Way Down – Jennifer Bell Turtles All the Way Down – John Greene The Handmaids Tail – Margaret Atwood One of Us is Lying – Karen McManus The Bridge, Bill Konigsberg Win, Lose, Kill, Die, Cynthia Murphy Britty, Britty, Bang, Bang Hugh Dennis |
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