Purple Gr Reading Sheet Non-fiction

G.R. Group

Book band: PURPLE

NC level: 2B

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TEXT TYPE: Non-Fiction

Book title: TARGETS FOR LEVEL 2B NON-FICTION Look through a variety of texts with growing independence to predict content, layout and story development Read silently or quietly at a more rapid pace, taking note of punctuation and using it to keep track of longer sentences Solve most unfamiliar words on the run by blending long vowel phonemes, recognising and using them in longer and more complex words Adapt to fiction, non-fiction or poetic language with growing flexibility Take a more conscious account of literary effects used by fiction writers, and the formal language of different types of non-fiction Begin to make more conscious use of reading to extend speaking and writing vocabulary and syntax

Decoding strategies (AF1)

Understand, describe, select or retrieve.(AF2) Identify and comment on structure...(AF4)

Strategies used:

A=phonic knowledge: sound out phonemes and words & blend them together. B=Graphic knowledge: look at the shape of the word C=Grammatical knowledge: which type of word would fit into this sentence? D= Context: What would make sense in the story? E= Pictorial clues : use the pictures in the book

Lesson Sequence: 1.Book introduction 2. Strategy checks 3. ‘Walk through’ the text 4. Independent Reading 5. Returning to text for teaching points 6.Responding to the text & follow up

I can use punctuation to help me make my reading more interesting. I can read words from my teacher’s List 2. I can split words into syllables to read long words. I can blend words with long vowel phonemes such as played, sound, moon. I use different ways to work out words I don’t know I often spot my own mistakes in reading and make changes I can think of questions about a topic and find the information in my books. I can predict the content of information texts and explanations. I can choose the right sort of book to help me find the information I need. I can choose or reject information in books by deciding how useful it is I can use the alphabet to help me find information in alphabetically ordered texts.

Group Target:*Highlight one of targets specified above.

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Strategies used A B C D E A B C D E

Target achieved

Key questions What kind of a text is this? How do you know?

A B C D E

Can you find an example of a page you think has an interesting layout? Why did you choose it? How does the layout help the reader?

A B C D E

What is the purpose of the pictures?

A B C D E

Can you find examples of words which tell you the order of something? Why have some of the words been written in bold? What are the subheadings for?

A B C D E A B C D E A B C D E

Why have some of the words been written in italics?

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