Page 6 - Progression in the National Curriculum
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Rec/ELG Y1 Reading: Word reading Y4 Y5 Y6
Use phonic Apply phonic knowledge & skills Y2 Y3 Apply their growing knowledge of root words,
knowledge to decode as the route to decode words. prefixes and suffixes (etymology and
Continue to apply phonic knowledge morphology), both to read aloud and to
regular words and Respond speedily with the & skills as the route to decode words understand the meaning of new words they
read them aloud correct sound to graphemes for until automatic decoding has become meet.
all 40+ phonemes, including, embedded & reading is fluent.
accurately. where applicable, alternative Read accurately by blending the
ELG sounds for graphemes. sounds in words that contain the
Read accurately by blending graphemes taught so far, especially
Read some common sounds in unfamiliar words recognising alternative sounds for
irregular words. containing GPCs that have graphemes.
ELG been taught.
Read common exception Read further common exception Read further exception words, noting the
words, noting unusual words, noting unusual correspondence unusual correspondences between
correspondences between between spelling & sound and where spelling and sound, and where these
spelling and sound and where these occur in the word. occur in the word.
these occur in the word.
Read words containing taught Read accurately words of two or more
GPCs and –s, -es, -ing, -ed, -er syllables that contain the taught
and –est endings. GPCs.
Read other words of more than
one syllable that contain Read most words quickly and
taught GPCs. accurately, without overt sounding &
Read words with contractions, blending, when they have been
e.g. I’m, I’ll, we’ll and frequently encountered.
understand that the
apostrophe represents the Read aloud books closely matched to
omitted letter(s). their improving phonic knowledge,
sounding out unfamiliar words
Read aloud accurately books accurately, automatically & without
that are consistent with their undue hesitation.
developing phonic knowledge
and that do not require them to Re-read these books to build up their
use other strategies to work out fluency & confidence in word reading.
words.
Re-read these books to build up
their fluency & confidence in
word reading.
Read words containing common Apply their growing knowledge of root
suffixes. words, prefixes and suffixes (etymology
and morphology), both to read aloud
and to understand the meaning of new
words they meet.
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