READINGN.I.
Pupils should be enabled to:
participate in modelled, shared, paired and guided reading activities;
read, and be read to from a wide selection of poetry and prose;
read with some independence for enjoyment and information;
read, explore, understand and make use of a range of traditional and digital texts;
re-tell, re-read and act out a range of texts, representing ideas through drama, pictures, diagrams and ICT;
begin to locate, select and use texts for specific purposes;
research and manage information relevant to specific purposes, using traditional and digital sources, and present their findings in a variety of ways;
use a range of comprehension skills, both oral and written, to interpret and discuss texts;
explore and begin to understand how texts are structured in a range of genres;
explore and interpret a range of visual texts;
express opinions and give reasons based on what they have read;
begin to use evidence from text to support their views;
read and share their own books of stories and poems including the use of digital resources;
build up a sight vocabulary;
use a range of strategies to identify unfamiliar words;
talk with the teacher about ways in which language is written down, identifying phrases, words, patterns or letters and other features of written language;
recognise and notice how words are constructed and spelt.