Reading

Year 3 

By the end of Year 3 children will be able to:

• Recognise and understand some familiar written words and phrases and show an awareness of grapheme-phoneme correspondence in French.

• Read and understand familiar nouns, verbs and adjectives.
• Read aloud familiar words and phrases from stories, songs and rhymes with reasonable accuracy.

Year 4

By the end of Year 4 children will be able to:

• Read and understand familiar written words, phrases and short texts.
• Develop confidence in reading a wider range of words, phrases and sentences aloud and apply phonic knowledge to support reading and pronunciation.

• Understand the key points in simple texts.
• Use strategies to work out the meaning of new words.

Year 5

By the end of Year 5 children will be able to:

• Read a variety of short simple texts in different formats and in different contexts.

• Practise reading a poem for performance.
• Read a variety of short simple texts of different genres and text types that contain both familiar and new vocabulary.

• Focus on the correct pronunciation and intonation and gesture to convey meaning when reading aloud.

Year 6

By the end of Year 6 children will be able to:

• Read aloud from a text with good expression.

• Read simple play scripts, poems, their own work or simple stories in groups.

• Read and understand the main points and some detail from a short, written passage.