Book Band: Purple is 2C

source

National Curriculum Level

2C


Book Band:

Purple




Band 8 – Purple – Level 2 (C)

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




School Reference:

To discriminate and blend end clusters and read words containing end clusters. (Yr1, Tm3, W3)
To identify and read verbs with ‘ed’ and ‘ing’ endings. (Yr1, Tm3, W6)
To discriminate and blend common vowel digraphs as an aid to decoding unfamiliar words. (Yr2, Tm1, W6)
To read on sight high frequency words specific to graded books. (Yr1, Tm3, W2)
To identify and discuss new words in texts. (Yr2, Tm 2, W10)
To decipher new and unfamiliar words using knowledge of the grammatical structure. (Yr1, Tm2, S2)
To predict words from preceding words in the sentence and investigate the sorts of words that ‘fit’ suggesting appropriate alternatives, i.e. that make sense. (Yr1, Tm2, S3)
To read texts at orange and turquoise level with pace and expression appropriate to the grammar, e.g. pausing at full stops, raising voice for questions, changing voice for speech. (Yr1, Tm3, S3)
To use reading searchlights (phonics, context, grammar and graphic knowledge) to predict and check meanings of unfamiliar words in orange and turquoise level texts (Yr1, Tm2, T2)
To retell stories, giving the main points in sequence and pick out significant incidents. (Yr1, Tm2, T4)
To identify and discuss characters. (Yr1, Tm2, T8)
To use the contents pages and indexes to begin to locate information by page numbers and words by initial letter. (Yr1, Tm2, T21)
To predict the content of unfamiliar stories using titles, cover pages, pictures and blurbs. (Yr1, Tm3, T7)
To monitor own reading, checking meaning and visual information