At Keilor Primary School Reading and Viewing is an integral part of the curriculum. Our students are encouraged to develop a love of reading through exposure to a range of texts types, genres and topics. Students are exposed to these text types through accessing books within our school library, classroom libraries, levelled text baskets, a variety of interactive programs such as Literacy Planet, and Reading A-Z and through a range of teaching approaches such as modelled, shared, guided, reciprocal reading and book clubs. They have opportunities to meet with their teachers in one-on-one conferences and set goals based on their individual needs.

We believe in making the transition from learning to read to reading to learn. This ensures that students develop the skills that allow them to decode and read with fluency, phrasing and expression and then deepen their understanding of texts by drawing on a variety of comprehension strategies. The comprehension strategies - predicting, making connections, questioning, visualising, clarifying, inferring, summarising, synthesising and thinking critically about the text – allow students to gain a greater understanding of the texts at a deeper level and become an active and engaged participant in the text.