Year 6 Reading non-negotiables
- Decide on the quality and effectiveness of a text by skimming to give an impression
- Move easily across a text in order to locate information to answer questions
- Recommend books that they have read and give reasons for their choices
- Accurately summarise the main and supporting ideas within specific chapters and paragraphs
- Recognise the key conventions used across particular text types
- Accurately identify the purpose of different texts
- Identify themes, supported with evidence from the texts
- Work out the meaning of words from the context
- Explain and discuss their understanding of what has been read, drawing inferences and justifying these with evidence
- Predict what might happen from details stated and implied
- Retrieve information from non-fiction
- Summarise main ideas, identifying key details and using quotations for illustration
- Evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader
- Make comparisons within and across books