Category: Reading Key stage 3  

Abbreviation: ER KS3

See also: Pre-curriculum/National curriculum descriptions. Category lists.

Description

Pupils should be taught to:

• develop an appreciation and love of reading, and read increasingly challenging material independently through:
  • reading a wide range of fiction and non-fiction, including in particular whole books, short stories, poems and plays with a wide coverage of genres, historical periods, forms and authors, including high-quality works from English literature, both pre-1914 and contemporary, including prose, poetry and drama; Shakespeare (2 plays) and seminal world literature
  • choosing and reading books independently for challenge, interest and enjoyment
  • rereading books encountered earlier to increase familiarity with them and provide a basis for making comparisons
• understand increasingly challenging texts through:
  • learning new vocabulary, relating it explicitly to known vocabulary and understanding it with the help of context and dictionaries
  • making inferences and referring to evidence in the text
  • knowing the purpose, audience for and context of the writing and drawing on this knowledge to support comprehension
  • checking their understanding to make sure that what they have read makes sense
• read critically through:
  • knowing how language, including figurative language, vocabulary choice, grammar, text structure and organisational features, presents meaning
  • recognising a range of poetic conventions and understanding how these have been used
  • studying setting, plot, and characterisation, and the effects of these
  • understanding how the work of dramatists is communicated effectively through performance and how alternative staging allows for different interpretations of a play
  • making critical comparisons across texts
  • studying a range of authors, including at least 2 authors in depth each year
     
  Reading and Pre/Nat. Curiculum Standard
  • Reading Standard 1-6
  • Reading Standard 1
  • Reading Standard 2
  • Reading Standard 3
  • Reading Standard 4
  • Reading Standard 5
  • Reading Standard 6
  • Reading Key stage 1-2
  • Reading Key stage 1
  • Reading Key stage 1 year 1
  • Reading Key stage 1 year 2
  • Reading Key stage 2 years 3-4
  • Reading Key stage 2 years 5-6
  • Reading Key stage 3
  • Reading Key stage 4

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