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Year 4 Reading Objectives

Y4 Expected Outcomes

Y4 Greater Depth Outcomes

Word

  • I can use my existing knowledge of a range of different words to help with reading aloud and understanding the meaning of new words.
  • I can independently use my existing knowledge of a range of different words to help with reading aloud and understanding the meaning of new words.
  • I am aware that some words sound different to how they are spelt.
  • I know a range of words sound different to how they are spelt.

Fluency

  • I can read more challenging words quickly and accurately.
  • I can read more challenging words independently, quickly and accurately.

 

  • I will prepare and perform poems and play scripts (showing understanding through intonation, tone, volume and action).
  • I confidently perform poems and play scripts.

Comprehension

  • I can show you I have understood the increasingly wide range of texts I have read.
  • I can evaluate an increasingly wide range of texts I have read.
  • I can use a dictionary to check the meaning of new words
  • I can use a dictionary confidently to check the meaning of new words and use them in my own work.
  • I can identify different themes and conventions in a wide range of books I read
  • I can identify and evaluate different themes and conventions in a wide range of books I read.
  • I will perform poems and play scripts to keep the listener interested (showing understanding through intonation, tone, volume and action).
  • I confidently perform a range of poems and play scripts to keep the listener interested.
  • I check what I have read to ensure it makes sense.
  • I check what I have read to ensure it makes sense by comparing it with other books I have read and exploring the meaning of new words.
  • I use evidence from different parts of the text to support my inferences such as showing characters' feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions across the story
  • I use a range of quality evidence from different parts of the text to justify my inferences such as showing characters' feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions across the story.
  • I can predict events in stories from what I have read.
  • I can accurately predict events in stories from what I have read.
  • I can tell what the main ideas in a book are from reading a number of paragraphs.
  • I can tell what the main ideas in a book are from reading a number of paragraphs and categorising my ideas efficiently.
  • I can use non-fiction books to find out about things.
  • I can use non-fiction books to find out about things independently.