Reads with increasing fluency and accuracy and uses a range of strategies to construct meaning.
More secure developing readers have a growing range of strategies to support their reading and are able to apply them to longer and more complex texts. They are increasingly confident in their choice of the most appropriate strategy to decode new and unfamiliar vocabulary and they are tackling extended sentences, often scanning ahead to see where they end and how they are structured.
These readers are also beginning to engage with the imaginative world of the fiction texts they encounter and take an interest in the range of information with which they are presented in non-fiction. They are beginning to play a more active role as a reader, asking questions, speculating and making judgements, even empathising and sympathising with characters and situations. They are able to identify some basic features of language and text organisation and also show some understanding of why a text has been written.
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