Reading
On this page, you will find information about the Year 2 reading curriculum and how you can support at home. If you are looking for some reading inspiration, take a look at this list of Year 2 Recommended Reads.
Fluency and Comprehension
In Year 2, children should be reading sufficiently fluently to allow them to focus on their understanding rather than decoding individual words. Reading lessons in Year 2 develop children’s word recognition and sight reading abilities by providing children with multiple opportunities to read the same book.
In school, children will read the same book every day for a week. Each time they read the book, we hope to see their fluency improve, allowing them to focus on their ‘storyteller’ voice.
First read: read every word accurately
Second read: read more words ‘at a glance’
Third read: read the whole story accurately
Fourth read: read the whole story accurately and at a more fluent pace
Fifth read: read the whole story accurately, fluently and with a ‘storyteller’ voice.
When reading with your children at home, please encourage them to read the same story multiple times. This will enable them to read more words by sight, thus improving their fluency and allowing them to focus more on their ‘storyteller’ voice.
Once children are able to read fluently, they will be able to concentrate more on their understanding of the story using their comprehension skills. Comprehension skills in Year 2 are broken down into 5 areas:
1a draw on knowledge of vocabulary to understand texts
1b identify / explain key aspects of fiction and non-fiction texts, such as characters, events, titles and information
1c identify and explain the sequence of events in texts
1d make inferences from the text
1e predict what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far
In school, children will be required to apply these skills to written comprehension questions, where they will have to independently read the question, use the text to inform their answer, and then write it using a given format.
More information of the expectations for reading in Year 2, as well as details of how you can best support your child with their reading at home can be found here:
Reading Workshop Year 2 Slides 29.11.23
Read Write Inc.
At Kents Hill Park, your child will be taught to read using the Read Write Inc. (RWI) phonics programme. Read Write Inc., developed by Ruth Miskin, provides a structured and systematic approach to teaching early reading. It is designed to create fluent readers and confident speakers.
More information on the programme can be found at: https://youtu.be/sjlPILhk7bQ.
For more information regarding the teaching of phonics, please see the Year 1 Phonics and Reading page