Reads between the lines, seeing meaning that isn't stated directly. Deploys a wide range of active strategies to find and read texts for different purposes.
Pupils who are becoming competent readers have secured sufficient reading strategies, such as phonics, contextual cues, word attack skills and sense of grammar, to tackle new and unfamiliar texts, with confidence, on their own. Whilst they may still read hesitantly on occasions, they possess sufficient self-help strategies to hear their errors and self-correct when necessary. They not only scan ahead to tackle longer, complex sentences; they are beginning to look beyond the sentence to paragraphs, chapters and whole-text layout.
Pupils at this stage read for meaning and are willing participants in the imaginative world of the text, visualising, empathising, and making judgements about what they read. Private reading can be a rewarding and self-sustaining activity for them, worthy of the time and energy they invest in it. They see what reading has to offer them.