Reading through primary school
Reading from Year 1 to Year 6: 15 topics, each building on the year before. A gap in one year tends to show up in the next, so this is the order to look back through when something isn't sticking.
Practise reading at the right level
Daily challenges that start from what your child already knows in this topic, close gaps from earlier years first and keep pace with their school year.
- Phonics: sounds and lettersAutumn 1
- Reading common tricky wordsAutumn 2
- RhymingSpring 1
- Reading and understanding short textsSpring 2
- Word meanings and oppositesSummer 2
- Reading and understandingAutumn 1
- Word meanings and groupsSummer 2
- Finding information and simple inferenceAutumn 1
- Word meanings in contextSummer 1
- Retrieval, inference and summarisingAutumn 1
- Word meanings in contextSummer 2
- Inference and explaining answersAutumn 1
- Word meanings in contextAutumn 2
- Comprehension across a whole textAutumn 1
- Synonyms, antonyms and vocabularyAutumn 2
Topics from the national curriculum programmes of study for english, in the half term they usually come. A school's own timing can differ by a few weeks.
Helping at home
- Read together for ten minutes a day and ask why a character did something, not just what happened.
- Ask them to guess a word from the sentence around it, then check it in a dictionary.
Other english topics
- SpellingYears 1 to 6
- Grammar and punctuationYears 1 to 6
Practise reading at the right level
Daily challenges that start from what your child already knows in this topic, close gaps from earlier years first and keep pace with their school year.