Uses a number of reading strategies to identify and interpret relevant information within familiar text types
SUPPORT
CONTEXT
TEXT
TASK COMPLEXITY
High level support
May work with expert/mentor
Modelling available and accessible if requested
Familiar and predictable contexts
Limited range of contexts
Simple familiar texts with clear purpose
Familiar vocabulary
Explicit tasks involving a limited number of familiar processes, e.g. identifying, interpreting
PERFORMANCE FEATURES INCLUDE:
Strategies
Identifies key words, chunks information and searches surrounding text as an aid to comprehension
Re-reads or slows down when meaning is lost
Uses a variety of word identification skills, e.g. knowledge of letter-sound relationships, whole word recognition, recognition of prefixes, suffixes, common stems
Textual clues
Reads a range of script/print types, e.g. different fonts, legible handwriting
Begins to use layout and headings to predict content and as an aid to understanding
Recognises some features of diagrammatic text, e.g. grid references, dot points, arrows
Begins to skim and scan familiar texts, often using pictures and graphics to locate specific information
Grammar
Identifies main ideas in written texts containing sentences of 1 or 2 clauses linked by simple cohesive devices such as and, but, then
Comprehends texts that include adjectives, pronouns and prepositions
Vocabulary
Recognises vocabulary associated with personally relevant contexts
Recognises abbreviations in familiar contexts, e.g. SMS
Uses dictionary or online facility to determine or clarify word meanings
