Fluency and Comprehension

Speed & Accuracy

Automaticity and reading speed are developed through daily group reading and frequent 1:1 reading, using texts that can be decoded.

Reading speed and accuracy are assessed using reading interviews and in Path B PiXL fluency tests.

Prosody

Prosody is taught explicitly during daily group reading, including:

•Expression

•Intonation

•Pace

•Tone

•Pitch

•Timing

•Phrasing

•Lifting the words off the page/lively

Key strategies such as echo reading, choral reading and performance reading are planned for all pupils. All pupils experience adults reading high quality children's literature and texts linked to curriculum content aloud daily.

Prosody development is tracked using PiXL Prosody Progress Tracker.

Comprehension

Comprehension strategies are explicitly taught, using texts pupils can read fluently or texts that are read to them, across 6 domains:

Explaining the meaning and impact of vocabulary in context
Retrieval
Summary
Prediction
Inference
Comparison

Comprehension is primarily assessed using teacher assessment. A range of tools inform this including:

Pupils' verbal responses to whole class teaching

Reading interviews using question stems

PiXL diagnostic tests

STAR Reader (Accelerated Reader)

Twinkl year-group leveled comprehension test material

SATs material

Whole Texts

Where possible, reading is taught using whole texts. Texts at the right reading level are chosen either for their curriculum links or because they relate to a particular group's interests. There are times when short, good quality extracts are used in order to focus on particular skills.