Curriculum for Excellence

Tools for reading

– to help me use texts with increasingly complex or unfamiliar ideas, structures and vocabulary within and beyond my place of learning
Early First Second Third Fourth
I explore sounds, letters and words, discovering how they work together, and I can use what I learn to help me as I read or write.

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I can use my knowledge of sight vocabulary, phonics, context clues, punctuation and grammar to read with understanding and expression.
Through developing my knowledge of context clues, punctuation, grammar and layout, I can read unfamiliar texts with increasing fluency, understanding and expression.
Through developing my knowledge of context clues, punctuation, grammar and layout, I can read unfamiliar texts with increasing fluency, understanding and expression.
Through developing my knowledge of context clues, punctuation, grammar and layout, I can read unfamiliar texts with increasing fluency, understanding and expression.
  I am learning to select and use strategies and resources before I read, and as I read, to help make the meaning of texts clear.

*Responsibility of all

I can select and use a range of strategies and resources before I read, and as I read, to make meaning clear and give reasons for my selection.

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I can select and use the strategies and resources I find most useful before I read, and as I read, to monitor and check my understanding.

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Before and as I read, I can apply strategies and use resources independently to help me read a wide variety of texts and/or find the information I need.

*Responsibility of all