Reading Skills Summary

The Year 3 and 4 Reading Skills Summary outlines a series of objectives aligned with the National Curriculum (NC) to enhance reading comprehension and analytical skills among students. Reading Skill 1 focuses on the ability to identify and discuss themes and conventions present in a text, enabling students to understand the underlying messages and common traits within various genres. Reading Skill 2 encourages students to engage with the text by discussing words and phrases that particularly capture their interest and stimulate their imagination, fostering a deeper connection with the reading material.

Reading Skill 3 involves checking for comprehension, ensuring that the text is coherent and that students are able to discuss their understanding of it. This includes exploring the meanings of words within their specific context. Moving further into textual analysis, Reading Skill 4 deals with drawing inferences about characters' feelings, thoughts, and motives based on their actions, and supporting these inferences with evidence from the text. Reading Skill 5 promotes the development of predictive skills, where students hypothesise potential developments in the story based on both explicit and implicit details. Reading Skill 6 is about identifying and summarising main ideas that are spread across multiple paragraphs, which aids in grasping the overall content and structure of the text. Reading Skill 7 examines how the use of language, the structure of the text, and its presentation all contribute to the meaning, encouraging a comprehensive understanding of the author's craft. Lastly, Reading Skill 8 equips students with the ability to extract and record information from non-fiction texts, a key skill for research and information management.