Reading Skills Summary

The summary of reading skills for Year 3 and 4 outlines eight key objectives aligned with the National Curriculum (NC). The first skill focuses on the ability of students to identify and discuss themes and conventions within a text. This foundational skill sets the stage for deeper comprehension and literary analysis. The second skill sharpens students' awareness of language, encouraging them to discuss words and phrases that particularly engage the reader's interest and stir the imagination, thereby enhancing their appreciation of literature.

Reading skill three is about ensuring comprehension, prompting students to verify that the text makes sense to them, discuss their understanding, and delve into the meanings of words within their context. Building on this, the fourth skill involves drawing inferences about characters' feelings, thoughts, and motives based on their actions, and supporting these inferences with evidence from the text. The fifth skill encourages predictive abilities, asking students to anticipate future events or outcomes based on explicit and implicit details. Reading skill six involves extracting the main ideas from multiple paragraphs and effectively summarising them, which is essential for understanding broader concepts and arguments. The seventh skill focuses on the analysis of how language, structure, and presentation affect the reader's interpretation of the text. Lastly, the eighth skill equips students with the ability to locate, retrieve, and record information from non-fiction sources, a crucial skill for research and information processing.