Key Skills

Phonics NOW SOUNDS WRITE

See separate phonics guidance.

To continue to apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words until automatic decoding has become embedded and reading is fluent.

To read accurately by blending the sounds in words that contain the graphemes taught so far, especially recognising alternative sounds for graphemes.

To accurately read most words of two or more syllables.

To read most words containing common suffixes.*

Fluency 

To read most Y1 and Y2 common exception words*, noting unusual correspondences between spelling and sound and where these occur in the word.

To read aloud books (closely matched to their improving phonic knowledge), sounding out unfamiliar words accurately, automatically and without undue hesitation.

To reread these books to build up fluency and confidence in word reading.

To read words accurately and fluently without overt sounding and blending, e.g. at over 90 words per minute, in age-appropriate texts

To show understanding by drawing on what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher.

To check that the text makes sense to them as they read and to correct inaccurate reading.

Words in Context/Authorial Intent

To discuss and clarify the meanings of words, linking new meanings to known vocabulary.

To discuss their favourite words and phrases.

Comparing, Contrasting and Commenting

To participate in discussion about books, poems and other works that are read to them (at a level beyond at which they can read independently) and those that they can read for themselves, explaining their understanding and expressing their views.

To become increasingly familiar with and to retell a wide range of stories, fairy stories and traditional tales.

To discuss the sequence of events in books and how items of information are related.

To recognise simple recurring literary language in stories and poetry.

To ask and answer questions about a text.

To make links between the text they are reading and other texts they have read (in texts that they can read independently).

Inference & Prediction

To make inferences on the basis of what is being said and done.

To predict what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far in a text.

Poetry & performance

To continue to build up a repertoire of poems learnt by heart, appreciating these and reciting some with appropriate intonation to make the meaning clear.

Non-Fiction

To recognise that non- fiction books are often structured in different ways.

Key Knowledge

Phonics

See separate phonics guidance.

To know that by blending the sounds in words that contain the graphemes taught so far

To recognise alternative sounds for graphemes.

To accurately read most words of two or more syllables.

To read most words containing common suffixes.*

Fluency 

To know all  Y1 and Y2 common exception words*

Words in Context/Authorial Intent

To have their own favourite words and phrases from texts that they have read.

Comparing, Contrasting and Commenting

To become increasingly familiar with and to retell a wide range of stories, fairy stories and traditional tales.

Poetry & performance

To continue to build up a repertoire of poems learnt by heart.

Non-Fiction

To recognise that non- fiction books are often structured in different ways.

Key Vocabulary