Snap Reading

Outcomes

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Can retrieve key details and quotations to demonstrate understanding of character, events and information

Can answer who, what, why, where, when, which, how questions, using direct reference to and quotes from the text

Can make developed inferences drawing on evidence from the text and wider personal experience

Can talk about the types of texts they enjoy and that interest them

Can persevere with challenging texts (whole texts, including novels) to read with fluency, understanding and expression

Can skim texts to get the general idea of the content of a piece

Can scan texts to find particular information

Can search for simple clues within the text to support ‘reading between the lines’

Can prove or disprove a statement about character or setting by finding evidence in the text

Can identify a range of figurative language e.g. metaphor, simile, alliteration, idioms, euphemism, personification etc.

Can compare, contrast and evaluate different texts

Can identify key details and use quotes for illustration

Can use clues from action, dialogue and description to interpret meaning

Can identify key features such as setting, action, past events

Can make developed predictions that are securely rooted in the text

Can comment upon the use and effect of the author's language on the reader

Can provide developed explanations for key information, events, character actions and motivations

Can identify whether statements from a text are fact or opinion

Can accurately order summaries of different paragraphs within a text

Can accurately and selectively summarise main ideas, events, characters and information from fiction

Can identify and comment on the presentational features of text

Can use text format and text features accurately to determine text type

Can explain their prediction choices fully, using evidence from the text

Can provide straightforward explanations for the purpose of the language, structure and presentation of texts

Can decide whether statements about a text are true or false, using direct reference to the text

Can identify the main message in a poem/story

Can explain and justify inferences, providing evidence from the text to support reasoning

Can empathise with different characters' points of view

Can identify/explain how the sequence of events in narrative fiction contributes to meaning as a whole

Can identify what impression a word/words give the reader

Can use information from the whole text to answer questions e.g. true or false

Can find and discuss evidence of themes and conventions in different genres and forms of text

Can make predictions about characters including how their behaviour may/may not change and how they may/may not appeal to the reader, justifying answers with reference to the text

Can understand and recognise different forms of poetry,  discuss their meaning and impact on the reader

Reciprocal Reading

Outcomes

Can make accurate and appropriate comparisons within texts

Can make comparisons about how a character changes e.g. their opinion, how they are different after a certain event

Cyclical Reading Skills

Can read aloud with intonation that shows understanding

Can construct visual images

Can use appropriate decoding strategies fluently and accurately

Can show an understanding of the meaning of vocabulary in different contexts

Can find and copy one word/groups of words with a particular meaning

Can find words in a text that most closely match the meaning of a given word

Can explain what words suggest about a given subject

Can talk about a growing repertoire of vocabulary and know how to independently find out what unknown words in text mean

Can identify and comment on the grammatical features of text