Reading
Reading at home
How to comment in reading diaries
Comprehension skillsÂ
Understood the story well. Â
Good discussion about events in the story.Â
Retold the story in detail. Could talk about the story confidently. Â
Answered questions about the content. Â
Needs to read again to improve understanding. Used the pictures to assist understanding. Â
Needed lots of help to understand the main events.
Word skillsÂ
Read all the words correctly.
Found some words difficult.Â
Found the red words tricky.
Tried hard to work out new green words. Â
Identified learnt sounds.
Good word building.
Needs to practice again to reinforce the words. Â
Read accurately and confidently. Â
Was able to work out new words using picture clues.
Attitude and interest
Read eagerly.
Enjoyed the story because …… Â
Fantastic expression. Would benefit from reading again to improve fluency. Â
Has learnt all about…………… and could explain in own words.
Mystery Reader!
In our classrooms you may see books wrapped in brown paper, these are our Mystery reader books, the children have clues but can't see inside! These are the books we read to the children at the end of every day. The idea behind wrapping them up is to build anticipation and make reading exciting! These books are often books which are pitched beyond the children's limitations, in Year 2 for example we may read Matilda or Harry Potter, this exposes our children to higher level vocabulary, and allows them to access complex sentence structures which they may not see in their own reading books. We LOVE it!Â
Stories from the staff




The little mouse, the red ripe strawberry and the big hungry bear
Read by Mrs dyer
Link here: The little mouse ...











