Reading: teaching and learning at Griffin

For Reading, there are only two (broad), 'Essential', Key Objectives. They are:

To read words accurately         and        To understand texts

The first involves being able use sounds (phonics) and other cues to read the words; the second relates to what we often refer to as comprehension. As the Milestones below show, the emphasis is greatest for phonics and 'reading words accurately' when children are emerging as readers (Milestone 1), and the skills required 'to understand texts' become more central as children develop as readers in the Juniors.

Children in the Juniors tend to read less (including at home) because they are generally reading words accurately and fluently and it may be thought that the job is done. However, they are often only at a 'basic' level for comprehension and so it is important that reading and questioning continues at home, including with parents.

Click on the sample page below for the detail of our Milestone objectives for Reading. Look at 'To understand texts' (page 2), in particular, to guide your Reading discussions with both Junior and Infant children.