Author: Purley Nursery and Children's Centre

Purley Nursery School and
Every Child a Reader
Core Book Collections

We would like to introduce you to the Core Book Collection in the Reading Area in the Classroom.
This collection of 12 books will be
introduced gradually to the Children at Story and Group times across the day.
The aim is that children will become very familiar with the stories in these carefully chosen books.
As the children become more and more confident in knowing the stories they will begin to re-tell them to interested adults, their friends or any other
interested listeners.
Being confident in ‘telling back’ stories
is a very important part of children’s learning to read .

This can happen when sharing a book with
someone, looking at a book alone, or telling a story out loud without a book.
Children begin to remember the words from Core books “off by heart” .
Then they can be encouraged to begin to point to the words on the page as they say them. This, too, is a very important reading skill.
It means the children feel confident as a “reader” before using other ways of
working out what words “say”.
The Core Book Collection will be
introduced into the Library to take home, and in all other rooms so children can choose to read them wherever they are in the School.
P.T.O.

Walking Through the Jungle
It’s the Bear
The Gruffalo
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Handa’s Surprise
Dear Zoo
Where’s Spot?
Five Little Ducks
Peace at Last
Whatever Next
Brown Bear, Brown Bear
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt