READING LEVEL 1

Uses a limited range of decoding strategies to identify specific information in explicit and highly familiar texts

Full support

Works alongside expert/mentor

Prompting and modelling provided

Highly familiar contexts

Concrete and immediate

Very restricted range of contexts

Short and simple

Highly explicit purpose

Limited, highly familiar vocabulary

PERFORMANCE FEATURES INCLUDE:

• Uses a limited range of word identification strategies, e.g. some self-correction, sounding out of letters and words, word recognition

• Derives meaning from visual texts, e.g. print, signs, symbols
• Identifies letters in the context of whole words within simple sentences
• Recognises numerals, e.g. prices
• Relies heavily on textual cues such as photos, diagrams to support understanding of written texts
• Responds to the use of basic punctuation, e.g. full stop

• Recognises a limited number of familiar words and phrases
• Uses knowledge of the alphabet to consult a dictionary, e.g. bilingual, pictorial or personal word list