4 x weekly guided reading sessions to build on basic strategies for decoding and understanding text.

Green Reading Skills:

Say or stretch unfamiliar words using: blends, digraphs, chunks, rhyme and word endings.
Recognise high frequency words and make links to other words.
Read on to gather more information so I can work out the word.
Identify the error, and correct it.
Talk about how I worked out the problem.
Notice word endings, rhyme and letter clusters.
Discuss characters, settings and problems and make predictions.
Ask questions about new vocabulary and the story.
Make the story more interesting more interesting by stressing words in bold print and using punctuation effectively.
Read my story again fast and fluent.
What strategies have I used?