Reading

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Reading

To help your children even more please refer to the information below and practice at home. We can not state how important it is for you to sign your child's reading record each night once you have read/ questioned them to evidence that they are practicing these techniques.

End of Year 3 Expectations

Working Towards Expected Standard:

Apply knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words.
Read Year 1, 2 & some Year 3 exception words
Listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays and non-fiction books.
Begin to use a dictionary to check the meaning of words that they have read
Check that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and explaining the meaning of words in context
Ask questions to improve their understanding of a text
Begin to draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence
Predict what might happen from details stated and implied

Phonics:

Many children rely on using their phonetical knowledge to decode words whilst reading and writing. In Year 3, some children will still undertake Phonics intervention to ensure they are fluent with their sounds. Please refer to the link below whilst at home for extra support:

Phonics

Example Text - Working Towards

Working at the Expected Standard:

Children should achieve all of the Working Towards Expected Standard objectives, plus...

Increase their familiarity with a wide range of books, including fairy stories, myths and legends, and retelling some of these orally
Identify themes and conventions in a wide range of books
Prepare simple poems and play scripts to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone, volume and action
Discuss words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination
Recognise some different forms of poetry (e.g. free verse, narrative poetry)
Check that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and explaining the meaning of words in context
Ask questions to improve their understanding of a text
Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence
Predict what might happen from details stated and implied
Identify main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarise these
Identify how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning
Retrieve and record information from non-fiction
Participate in discussion about both books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, taking turns and listening to what others say

Example Text - Working At

Working Above the Expected Standard:

To be assessed as 'working at greater depths', children need to meet most or all of the above objectives confidently.

They must be able to apply their reading skills across a variety of text genres and writing styles
They must be able to demonstrate their understanding by answering increasingly complex questions based on what they have read.

Example Text - Working Above

End of Year 3 Expectations

Working Towards Expected Standard:

Phonics:

Working at the Expected Standard:

Working Above the Expected Standard:

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