Notes for Adults
For Adults who read with Year 2 children. Below are pointers (From the National Curriculum) of things to ask and discus with your child when reading. I will put ideas daily for you to do. But if you are aware of the things we need to cover.
Fully engage with reading and take pleasure from books and texts.
Listen to, discuss and express views about a wide range of contemporary and classic poetry, some of
which they can read independently.
Listen to, discuss and express views about a wide range of stories at a level beyond that which they
can read independently. Takes account of what others say.
Show understanding of texts read independently; self-correct.
Know and retell a wide range of stories, fairy stories and traditional tales.
Discuss the sequence of events in books, and how items of information are related.
Make inferences on the basis of what is said and done; predict according to what has been read so
far.
Discuss and express views about a range of non-fiction texts which are structured in different ways.
Discuss and clarify the meaning of new words; discuss favourite words and phrases.
Recognise simple recurring literary language in stories and poetry.
Recite a repertoire of poems learnt by heart, using appropriate intonation