Requirements In Which A Child Needs To Meet When Learning To Read

Question 0

A child needs to recognise and distinguish individual letters….

Answer 0

And determine where whole words start and finish.

Question 1

A child needs to understand the relationship between….

Answer 1

Marks on the page and sounds.

Question 2

A child needs to be familiar with the shape of words so they can…

Answer 2

Guess what badly written or misspelled words mean.

Question 3

A child needs to be able to identify sentences and….

Answer 3

Recognise these as similar to those used in verbal communication

Question 4

A child needs to be able to move on from reading words one at time to….

Answer 4

predicting the likelihood of certain words being used in follow up.

Question 5

A child needs to grasp the significance of….

Answer 5

Cohesion in whole texts.

Question 6

A child needs to realise that different sorts of books are….

Answer 6

Organised in different ways.

Question 7

A child needs to understand genre features such as…

Answer 7

Character roles and typical opening and closing conventions.

Question 8

A child needs to co-ordinate…

Answer 8

Several physical and mental processes

E.g. Reading left to right.