Reading age 4-5

Example of reading age 4-5

Words of approx 2-6 letters in length

Double spacing

Shut the Gate - Alphakids

                                                             

Reading age 5-6

Students are able to read up to 2-4 sentences at one time

Taking not of punctuation

                                                             

Reading age 7-8

Students are able to read words which are considerably longer in length.

                                                             

More info and Links

Information regarding individual students reading ages are found under the staff (T:)drive under SEN info

http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/resources/practical_resources_info

Reading age 9 - 10

Longer paragraphs of text

Still evenly spaced

Reading age 11-12Words longer in

length

Understanding of more complex adjectives and verbs

‘Learning objective’ language

...be abused and is determined to keep it at all costs. Because his family is very poor, without money to feed another mouth, his parents don't want any pets. Subsequently, there is a lot of conflict over the animal within the family and between Marty and Judd Travers, the dog's owner ........

Reading age 15/16 +

Most GCSE text books revision guides

Can read paragraphs of text with ease

Making sense of punctuation, brackets and quotations