Band 8 – Purple – Level 2 (C)

Band 8 – Purple – Level 2 (C)


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Learning opportunities

Look through a variety of texts with growing independence to predict content, layout and story development
Read silently or quietly at a more rapid pace, taking note of punctuation and using it to keep track of longer sentences
Solve most unfamiliar words on the run
Adapt to fiction, non-fiction or poetic language with growing flexibility
Take more conscious account of literary effects used by writers
Begin to make more conscious use of reading to extend speaking and writing vocabulary and syntax.

Text characteristics

Sentence structures become longer and more complex
Story plot may be more involved and reflect the feelings of the writer
Wider variety of text genre but still illustrated
Some books with chapters for more sustained reading
Characters are more distinctive and rounded than at earlier levels
Widening vocabulary and range of terminology
Non-fiction texts cover an increasing curriculum range and different text formats



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