Reading Skills
When reading, we teach the children 8 different reading skills. These skills link to the 8 types of questions children will need to answer in their reading assessments.
When reading, we teach the children 8 different reading skills. These skills link to the 8 types of questions children will need to answer in their reading assessments.
The reading skills are as follows:
- Give/explain the meaning of words in context
- Retrieve and record information/identify key details from fiction and non-fiction.
- Summarise main ideas from more than one paragraph
- Make inferences from the text/explain and justify inferences with evidence from the text
- Predict what might happen from details stated and implied
- Identify/explain how information/narrative content is related and contributes to meaning as a whole.
- Identify/explain how meaning is enhanced through choice of words and phrases.
- Make comparisons within the text.
This half term will be focusing on the following 3 skills: Give/explain the meaning of words in context, retrieve and record information and making inferences.
Please see the example text and questions below:
How To Train Your Dragon Extract
Questions for How To Train Your Dragon Extract
Please see the document below for sentence stems from each of the domains that you can use when reading with your child at home:
