Year 4 Reading
Reading Activities in Year 4
- Sharing books/texts in English lessons
- Guided Reading
- 1:1 reading with an adult (when needed)
- Whole class VIPERS comprehension session
- Reading and performing playscript for Spring production
- Reading activities to support learning across the curriculum
- Listening to and joining in with poems, learning some "by heart"
- Independent reading
- Visiting the school library
- Story time
Reading - Word Reading
Pupils will be taught to:
- Apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (etymology and morphology) as listed in - see English appendix 1, both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words they meet
- Read further exception words, noting the unusual correspondences between spelling and sound, and where these occur in the word
Reading - Comprehension
Pupils will be taught to:
- Develop positive attitudes to reading, and an understanding of what they read, by:
- Listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks
- Reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes
- Using dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read
- Increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including fairy stories, myths and legends, and retelling some of these orally
- Identifying themes and conventions in a wide range of books
- Preparing poems and play scripts to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone, volume and action
- Discussing words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination
- Recognising some different forms of poetry [for example, free verse, narrative poetry]
- Understand what they read, in books they can read independently, by:
- Checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding, and explaining the meaning of words in context
- Asking questions to improve their understanding of a text
- Drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence
- Predicting what might happen from details stated and implied
- Identifying main ideas drawn from more than 1 paragraph and summarising these
- Identifying how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning
- Retrieve and record information from non-fiction
- Participate in discussion about both books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, taking turns and listening to what others say
