Is a critical and thoughtful reader across a wide range of texts: selecting, sifting, summarising, comparing and contrasting.
Secure versatile readers have mastered a wide range of reading skills, attitudes and behaviours. They can orchestrate their reading skills to tackle a demanding range of challenging fiction and non-fiction texts, including those written for an adult reader, and respond to these texts with clarity and confidence.
Through their experience of a wide range of texts, they have a growing awareness of literary traditions and the place of a text within its cultural, social and historical context.
With increasing maturity and continued wider reading, they will continue to improve as readers into adulthood.