Phase 6
During this phase children become fluent readers and increasingly accurate spellers. To become successful readers, children must understand what they read. They need to learn a range of comprehension strategies and should be encouraged to reflect upon what their learning. Over time, children need to develop self-regulated comprehension strategies:
- Activating prior knowledge
- Clarifying meanings – with a focus on vocabulary work
- Generating questions, interrogating the text
- Constructing mental images during reading
- Summarising
Working on:
Recognising phonic irregularities and becoming more secure with less common grapheme-phoneme correspondences
Applying phonic skills and knowledge to recognise and spell an increasing number of complex words.
Addition of suffixes:
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