Guided Reading

We encourage reading in lots of different ways throughout the whole curriculum not just within our English lessons. Guided Reading sessions take place four times a week and focus on a specific text type for two weeks. We use echo and chorus reading to support the children develop their fluency when reading. The children then answer different question types linked to the text.

V = Vocabulary

I = Inference

P = Prediction

R = Retrieval

S = Sequencing

We will send home the text they are working on home during the second week so your child can read it to you. This can be instead of them reading their reading book and they will receive a reading point for this.

DEAR (drop everything and read) time takes place each week allowing the children time to explore lots of different books. The children look sharing books with reading buddies whether in the library, classroom or outside. 

End of year Reading expectations for Year 2 pupils

 

Becoming a Reader

• Enjoy books and reading
• Engage with and discuss a wide range of poems (contemporary and classic), stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that which they can read independently
• Discuss and give opinions about books and authors, backed up by reasons

Word Reading

• Blend GPCs to read accurately
• Recognise alternative sounds for graphemes
• Apply phonic knowledge across the curriculum 
• Read most common exception words (National Curriculum Appendix 1) (EXS KS1)
• Read words of two or more syllables (EXS KS1)
• Read most words containing common suffixes (link to spelling) (EXS KS1)
• Orchestrate a range of reading strategies to decode successfully
• Self-correct when reading aloud

Fluency 

• Sound out most unfamiliar words accurately, without undue hesitation (EXS KS1)
• Read most words accurately without overt sounding and blending and sufficiently fluently to allow them to focus on their understanding rather than on decoding individual words (EXS KS1)
• Read year 2 texts with expression, appropriate volume, good phrasing, smoothness and at a conversational pace

Comprehension – Vocabulary Knowledge 

• Use the surrounding text to aid them in understanding unknown vocabulary
• Infer meanings from the vocabulary used 
• Respond imaginatively to what they have read or listened to e.g. talk, drama, drawing
• Develop understanding by linking reading to prior knowledge and/or background information
• Ask questions to themselves as they are reading e.g. ‘Why...’ and ‘I wonder…’
• Check that the text makes sense as they read and correct inaccurate reading  (EXS KS1)
• Build comprehension by retrieving basic information from a text (EXS KS1)
• Order the events in a text 
• Use vocabulary knowledge, including synonyms, to aid understanding and inference
• Explain what has happened so far in what they have read (EXS KS1)
• Recognise and discuss the sequence of events in fiction and how items are related in non-fiction
• Retrieve information from the text to answer questions  (EXS KS1)
• Use indexes, contents pages, headings and captions to navigate non-fiction texts

Being a Researcher

• Navigate simple alphabetically ordered texts
• Use screen based and book conventions to find information efficiently and safely