Junior 6 Ella Hits Two Million Words

She tops the leader board in the school’s annual reading challenge but she is not the only bookworm here at Crackley Hall School, with a further six pupils, Alex, Hector, Gabriella, Niamh, Beatrice and Edward, all having passed the million word mark.

Ella is modest about her amazing reading achievement saying, “I just enjoy reading and I read lots of different books.” She told us she mainly reads at school and that she really enjoyed her year group’s recent reading challenge to read books related to WW2 over the Easter holidays. Currently reading Michael Morpurgo’s Why The Whales Came, she plans to read his gripping story War Horse next.

Crackley Hall’s approach to reading and literacy is supported by Renaissance’s Accelerated Reader system. Children in Junior 3 to Junior 6 take a quiz after reading each book that tests their understanding. The approach promotes reading for pleasure whilst ensuring the children read appropriately challenging books. It totals up the books and words read, and we find the competitive element has a positive impact on children’s motivation to read.

There are so many good books out there for children to read and Crackley has a very positive reading culture in school. We find our pupils engage really well in our reading challenge, they enjoy tracking their word count and its awe-inspiring to see that we already have so many reading millionaires.