Reading Reception

Expected

Pupils will be able to:

• Children read and understand simple sentences

• They use their phonics knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately

• They also read some common irregular words

• They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read

Greater Depth

Pupils will be able to:

• Children can read phonically regular words of more than one syllable as well as many irregular but high frequency words

• They use phonic, semantic and syntactic knowledge to understand unfamiliar vocabulary

• They can describe the main events in the simple stories they have read