Reading Lists

“The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
 – Dr Seuss

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.”
– Neil Gaiman

“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.”
– Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

It is important to ensure your child is reading a wide variety of books and genres including fiction, non-fiction and poetry. This could be in the form of e-books, online, magazines as well as a good old-fashioned hardback or paperback book.

In addition to the selection in our school library, our local library in Westbury holds a great range of books no matter what your child’s interests or ability and it is absolutely free to borrow a book from them. Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/westburylibrarywilts/    

As a school, we want to encourage your child to develop a lifelong love of learning so have collated a list of recommended titles from various online sources:

A list of 2015 recommended reads from the Booktrust:
http://www.booktrust.org.uk/programmes/primary/read-for-my-school/

The Booktrust’s Best Book Guide from 2014:
http://fileserver.booktrust.org.uk/usr/resources/1120/bestbookguide_2014.pdf    

A list of books for our more able Key Stage 2 readers:
http://www.aatdashwood.org/218/more-able-ks2-reading-list 

A great website that allows you to read extracts from various books to help you choose your next title to read:
http://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/ 

Read a variety of ebooks with your child at home:
http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/