Reading Skills Summary

The Reading Skills Summary for Years 3 and 4 outlines eight key reading skills aligned with the National Curriculum objectives. The first skill focuses on the ability of students to identify and discuss various themes and conventions found within texts. This skill encourages pupils to recognise and talk about the underlying messages or moral lessons, as well as common elements used in storytelling.

The second skill enhances students' engagement with the text by discussing words and phrases that particularly capture their interest and spark their imagination. Reading Skill 3 emphasises the importance of comprehension, prompting students to ensure the text makes sense to them and to discuss their understanding. They are also encouraged to explore the meaning of words within the context they are used. 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. Predicting future events in the story from both explicit and implicit details is the focus of Reading Skill 5. Reading Skill 6 involves identifying main ideas across multiple paragraphs and summarising them effectively. The seventh skill highlights the understanding of how the use of language, structure, and presentation can affect the meaning of the text. Finally, Reading Skill 8 is about developing research skills, teaching students to retrieve and record information from non-fiction sources.