Destination Reader
Across Year 4, 5 and Year 6, we teach the reading programme, Destination Reader. Designed by Hackney Learning Trust, the programme involves daily reading sessions incorporating whole class modelling prior to the children applying these skills through partner work and independent reading. Children deepen their understanding of the texts they read through the systematic use of a series of strategies and language stems.
Destination Reader teaches children learning behaviours for reading that support them to actively listen to others and reach greater depths of understanding from a text. It focuses on seven different learning behaviours: predicting, inferring, asking questions, evaluating, clarifying, making connections and summarising. The children are guided in developing their skills with the use of sentence stems and whole class, teacher-led discussion.
The books read as part of Destination Reader for Year 4 are:
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
| Year 4 | Varjak Paw S.F.Said | How To Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell | Pugs of the Frozen North by Philip Reeve |
The books read as part of Destination Reader in Year 5 and Year 6 are:
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
| Year 5 | High Rise Mystery by Sharna Jackson | Floodland by Marcus Sedgewick | Street Child by Berlie Doherty | Can You See Me by Rebecca Westcott | Journey to Jo’burg by Beverley Naidoo | I Was A Rat by Philip Pullman |
| Year 6 | Wonder by R.J.Palacio | Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian | The Explorer by Katherine Rundell | Skellig by David Almond | Holes by Louis Sachar | A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness |