We’ve thought incredibly carefully about our Reading Spine at St Augustine’s. These are the books that all children will read as they progress through school. As you can see, there are a wide variety of texts linked to topics, classic texts, picture texts, inspirational texts and poetry.
Year 3
Simmonds Class
Murray Class
Year 4
Ross Class
Welby Class
Year 5
Attenborough Class
Newton Class
Year 6
Glennie Class
Farah Class
Stone Age Boy
by Satoshi Kitamura
Kensuke's Kingdom
by Michael Morpurgo
Letters from the Lighthouse
by Emma Carroll
Holes
by Louis Sachar
The Snowman
By Michael Morpurgo
Beowulf
By Michael Morpurgo
Treason
By Berlie Doherty
Cogheart
By Peter Bunzl
Secrets of a Sun King
By Emma Carroll
How to Train Your Dragon
By Cressida Cowell
The Explorer
By Katherine Rundell
Floodland
By Marcus Sedjwick
The BFG
By Roald Dahl
Rain Player
By David Wisniewski
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone
By JK Rowling
Macbeth
By William Shakespeare
Escape From Pompeii
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Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief
By Rick Riordan
Skellig
By David Almond
War Horse
By Michael Morpurgo
Charlotte's Web
By EB White
Just So Stories
By Rudyard Kipling
Goodnight Mr Tom
By Michelle Magorian
A Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens
Matilda
By Roald Dahl
The Magic Faraway Tree
By Enid Blyton
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
By CS Lewis
The Borrowers
By Mary Norton
The Little Match Girl
By Hans Christian Andersen
The Secret Garden
By Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Flotsam
By David Wiesner
The Lion and the Unicorn
By Shirley Hughes
Journey
By Aaron Becker
The Tunnel
By Anthony Browne
Lost and Found
By Oliver Jeffers
Here We Are
By Oliver Jeffers
The Promise
By Nicola Davies
Stuck
By Oliver Jeffers
Last Stop on Market Street
By Matt De La Pena
The Secret of Black Rock
By Joe Stanton
The Matchbox Diary
By Paul Fleischman
Voices In The Park
By Anthony Browne
The Arrival
By Shaun Tan
The Iron Man
By Ted Hughes
Coming To England
By Floella Benjamin
The Boy at the Back of the Class
By Onjali Q Raúf
Wonder
By RJ Palacio
The Christmasaurus
By Tom Fletcher
The Firework Maker's Daughter
By Philip Pullman
From A Railway Carriage
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Revolting Rhymes
By Roald Dahl
The Tyger
By William Blake
The Highwayman
By Alfred Noyes