Reading

In Reading, students will be developing their comprehension skills through daily Independent Reading, working in small reading groups and regular conferencing with their classroom teacher. The students will focus on the comprehension strategies of visualising/inferring and making connections using narrative texts. 

Home reading is invaluable to your child’s reading development. As some students are reading longer texts, with more words, you may like to read only some of the pages every night. It is not expected that an entire book will be read every night. It is important to spend time talking about the book. Your child could talk about what happened in the book, about the characters, new facts learnt, new vocabulary or share their opinion of the book. Please encourage your child to share their reading goal with you.

This term students will: 

Grade One 

• Notice the text features to identify the text type and therefore the purpose for reading.
• Read texts with developing fluency.
• Infer and talk about character feelings, motives and attributes.
• Make connections to personal experiences and knowledge of other texts to interpret and infer deeper meaning.

Grade Two 

• Notice the text structure and language features to identify the text type and therefore the purpose for reading.
• Read texts demonstrating all aspects of smooth, fluent processing with some slowdowns for word solving.
• Infer character traits, feelings and motivations from what the characters say or do and what others say or think about them.
• Make connections to personal experiences and knowledge of other texts to interpret and infer deeper meaning.