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Developing reading

Contents

Introduction 1

1 Engaging with the research 3

2 Subject-specific vocabulary 3

3 Approaches to reading 5

4 The research process – reading for information 6

5 Directed activities related to text (DARTs) 10

6 Making notes 15

Summary of research 18

Next steps 22

Setting future targets 23

Introduction

Successful reading

In order to read well, pupils need to orchestrate a range of skills from basic
decoding through to inference, deduction and being aware of the writer’s purpose
and how that affects the choices they made.

Successful readers:

• are confident in what they are doing and know how they should approach and
  read a text;


• recognise that texts are about much more than the words on the page;


• predict what will happen next;


• ask questions of the text;


• make links with other texts they have read both within and across various
  media;


• are able to relate what they read to their experience;


• pass judgements;


• evaluate text for veracity and usefulness.

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Unit 13: Developing reading

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