Can make a considered response to a range of texts and use information from a range of sources
Secure reflective readers are able to grasp the 'wholeness' of a text; they are able to explore the way a writer uses language or makes structural choices but they are able to go further, reflecting on the way these features support the writer's overall theme or purpose or contribute to the overall effect on the reader. This might involve tracing the development of a theme or character across the text as a whole, tracing an image throughout a text or exploring the way the writer builds up to an unexpected ending.
Furthermore, they understand how the writer's overall purpose or viewpoint may be located in the choices made at word and sentence level. In other words, they understand the 'bigger picture' as well as the 'nuts and bolts' of the text, but more importantly, they are beginning to understand their interdependence.
Pupils at this stage are beginning to think more independently and more critically about writers, texts and readers.
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