Reading and Understanding
By the end of Year 1 your child should be able to:
- Apply phonics knowledge to decode words and accurately blend sounds in unfamiliar words
- Read all the sounds up to and including phase 5
- Read all 100 common exception words (tricky words)
- Read words with contractions e.g. I'm, I'll, we'll
- Read words ending in -s, -es, -ing, -ed, -er and -est
- Accurately read books that are consistent with their developing phonic knowledge
- Re-read these books to build up fluency and confidence
-Listen to and discuss a wide range of poems, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently
- Link what they hear read to their own experiences
- Become familiar with key stories, fairy stories and traditional tales, retelling them and considering their particular characteristics
- Learn to appreciate rhymes and poems and to recite some by heart
- Discuss word meanings
-Check that the text makes sense to them and correct inaccurate reading
-Discuss the significance of the title and events
-Make inferences on the basis of what is being said and done
-Predict what might happen
-Participate in discussion about what is read to them, taking turns and listening to what others say
-Explain clearly their understanding of what is read to them