I regularly select and read, listen to or watch texts for enjoyment and interest, and I can express how well they meet my needs and expectations and give reasons, with evidence, for my personal response. I can independently identify sources to develop the range of my reading.
Through developing my knowledge of context clues, punctuation, grammar and layout, I can read unfamiliar texts with increasing fluency, understanding and expression.
Before and as I read, I can apply strategies and use resources independently to help me read a wide variety of texts and/or find the information I need.
Using what I know about the features of different types of texts, I can find, select, sort, summarise, link and use information from different sources.
I can make notes and organise them to develop my thinking, help retain and recall information, explore issues and create new texts, using my own words as appropriate.
To show my understanding across different areas of learning, I can:
• clearly state the purpose, main concerns, concepts or arguments and use supporting detail
• make inferences from key statements and state these accurately in my own words
• compare and contrast different types of text.
To show my understanding, I can give detailed, evaluative comments, with evidence, on the content and form of short and extended texts, and respond to different kinds of questions and other types of close reading tasks.
To help me develop an informed view, I can recognise persuasion and bias, identify some of the techniques used to influence my opinion, and assess the reliability of information and credibility and value of my sources.
I can:
• discuss and evaluate the effectiveness of structure, characterisation and/or setting using some supporting evidence
• identify how the writer’s main theme or central concerns are revealed and can recognise how they relate to my own and others’ experiences
• identify and make a personal evaluation of the effect of aspects of the writer’s style and other features appropriate to genre using some relevant evidence and terminology.
