N.C. Pupils should be taught to:  develop positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read by:  listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks  reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes , increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including, myths and legends, and retelling some of these orally  identifying themes and conventions in a wide range of books.  They should make references such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence  predicting what might happen from details stated and implied  identifying main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarising these  identifying how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning  retrieve and record information from non-fiction  participate in discussion about both books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, taking turns and listening to what others say.