English

Reading at The Grange School

Tutor groups in years 7 to 10 participate in our tutor reading programme. Each tutor reads to their tutor group for two mornings a week, with students tracking alongside.

The canon of books has been purposely constructed so that students not only develop a love of reading, but are also exposed to a range of reading sources that offer a high value of cultural capital; it will allow them to see how literature has developed and evolved from the 19th century to present day. Furthermore, research suggests that it ensures that all students expand their vocabulary and recognise complex use of sentence structure and punctuation as a purposeful device within literary art. Research, and our own practice, demonstrates that allowing students access to as wide a range of reading as possible increases their ability to understand and participate in the whole breadth of the curriculum and with the wider world in general.

Our current canon of books is below:  

Year 7

The Odyssey by Homer

Trash by Andy Mulligan

Richard III by William Shakespeare

Year 8

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Year 9

Blood Brothers by Willy Russell

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Year 10

"Register, Read and Respond" - students responding to a number of non-fiction texts.

Home Learning

All students are set home learning in English on a weekly basis.

KS3: Every week, students are set Reading Plus which is designed to improve reading speed, vocabulary and inference skills, and to motivate and engage students.

KS4: Weekly home learning is to be done on-line wherever possible using either Seneca for revision of literature texts or MS Forms to revise key concepts and language skills.