Pānui | Reading

Level 2

I can use a range of comprehension strategies
  • Visualisng
  • Inferring
  • Predicting
  • Prior Knowledge
  • Questioning
  • Making Connections
I select from a range of strategies to help me when I lose meaning in a text, like:
  • cross-check
  • reread
  • use what I know about words and sentence structure
  • look for clues to help confirm my predictions.



I make and explain my inferences using information in the text.
  • Automatically select an appropriate strategy when I encounter unknown words

  • Work out the meaning of new words by using my knowledge of how words work or using other information in the text


I understand figurative language by making connections between information in the text and my prior knowledge. (e.g. the toast jumped out of the toaster).
I can identify and summarise the main ideas in a text.

Level 3

I read to make sense. When I come across difficulties, I vary my speed of reading, I reread and I pay attention to important information.
I make connections between what I know and what I’ve read to understand abstract ideas.
I can skim and scanning to find details and facts.
I can identify and talk about the writers’ purpose and the ways they use language and ideas to suit their purpose.
I can evaluate ideas and information and justify my opinion.
I can infer information that is not directly in the text.
Work out the meaning of new words by using my knowledge of how words work or using other information in the text
Work out the meaning of unfamiliar phrases and expressions like figures of speech, by using oral language or the context

Level 4

Use appropriate skills and technologies to find and use a range of text for specific purposes.
Use a wide range of comprehension strategies to understand text. Using prior knowledge and information in the text to interpret ideas. Increasingly complex plots and sophisticated themes.
Identify and resolve issues that come from conflicting information in non-fiction text.
Apply criteria to evaluate texts, such as accuracy of information and presence of bias.
Use a range of strategies such as inferring, to work out increasingly complex words.
Recognise and understand the features and structures of a wide variety of text types and text forms.
Recognise and understand a variety of grammatical constructs and other linguistic patterns, such as cause and effect, comparing and contrasting.
Make links across texts by recognising connectives or adverbial clauses.
Use an increasingly wide range of academic and content specific vocabulary to understand text.
Interpret metaphor, analogy and correlative language to give meaning to the text.