Reading Progression.pdf

Decoding skills progress from applying phonic knowledge to decode words, reading accurately by blending taught grapheme-phoneme correspondences (GPCs), and reading common exception words, to securing phonic decoding, reading multisyllable words, and applying knowledge of root words, prefixes, and suffixes.

Range of reading involves listening to and discussing a wide range of poems, stories, and non-fiction, linking what is read to personal experiences, and reading books structured in different ways for various purposes.

Familiarity with texts increases through retelling key stories, recognizing recurring literary language, and identifying themes and conventions in a wide range of books, including myths, legends, and fiction from different cultures.

Poetry and performance skills develop from appreciating rhymes and poems to preparing poems and play scripts for performance, recognizing different forms of poetry, and learning a wider range of poetry by heart.

Understanding and inference skills involve drawing on prior knowledge, checking text meaning, discussing word meanings, and making inferences about characters' feelings, thoughts, and motives, justifying these with evidence from the text.