The Education (Curriculum Minimum Content) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007

READING N.I.

Pupils should be enabled to:

• participate in modelled, shared, paired and guided reading experiences;

• read, explore, understand and make use of a wide range of traditional and digital texts;

• engage in sustained, independent and silent reading for enjoyment and information;

• extend the range of their reading and develop their own preferences;

• use traditional and digital sources to locate, select, evaluate and communicate information relevant for a particular task;

• represent their understanding of texts in a range of ways, including visual, oral, dramatic and digital;

• consider, interpret and discuss texts, exploring the ways in which language can be manipulated in order to affect the reader or engage attention;

• begin to be aware of how different media present information, ideas and events in different ways;

• justify their responses logically, by inference, deduction and/or reference to evidence within the text;

• reconsider their initial response to texts in the light of insight and information which emerge subsequently from their reading;

• read aloud to the class or teacher from prepared texts, including those composed by themselves, using inflection to assist meaning;

• use a range of cross-checking strategies to read unfamiliar words in texts;

• use a variety of reading skills for different reading purposes.