1. Reading 7th February 2017
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2. What do children need to be able to read?
“Dense” texts
Texts with long sentences
Texts that have lots of writing and not much by way of sign posts - eg – subheadings
Texts with tricky words that they haven’t read before
Texts on subjects that they may know very little about

3. Example for last year’s End of Key Stage Two assessment

4. Reading and understanding tricky words
Decoding always has a place –
sound out words until they sound like something that they have heard before
Talking thesaurus – try out different words that they know that could make sense in the sentence
Read not only the sentence it is in, but the ones and above and below to use the context
Knowledge of words. Eg – quad (four) bike

5. Fluency and reading speed
Links with skill in decoding first
Using sentence to help guide them/ predict and refine
Best thing to do - read regularly to an adult
Ask them specific questions afterwards to check that they have understood it

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