We use a combination of teaching strategies for reading including:

-Skills lessons, which relate to the VIPERS comprehension skills

-Lessons that link to the Ashley Booth style of teaching where the focus is based more around discussion and verbalising answers using individual thinking, partnered work and a solo task.

Reading Comprehension Skills

To enable children to become active readers, we teach the following skills in reading lessons:

Vocabulary

Inference

Prediction

Explanation

Retrieval

Sequence or Summarise

The 6 domains focus on the comprehension aspect of reading and not the mechanics: decoding, fluency etc.  As such, VIPERS (in KS1 and KS2) is a method of ensuring that we ask, and students are familiar with, a range of questions. Below are some example questions, which relate to each of the skills, that you could ask when reading with your child:

Reading Progression

As children move through the school, they develop their reading skills (fluency, comprehension, performance) enabling them to become confident readers. The following document shows the progression of skills.