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AF1
Reading words on sight
Use a range of strategies, including e.g. familiar common words, some
accurate decoding of text, to read content words
for meaning
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Making use of phonic strategies
e.g. consonant blends, word
initial/word final; long vowels,
polysyllabic
Year 2 Individual Reading Assessment
Using sentence and whole text
knowledge
e.g. self correcting, substituting
words that make
grammatical/contextual sense
Showing awareness of punctuation
marks in reading
e.g. pausing at full stops
Name:___________________________________________________________
AF2
Recall the main ideas
Understand, describe, select
of a story or
or retrieve information, events information text
or ideas from texts and use
quotation and reference to
text
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Identify how characters
behave
e.g. repeated actions
and sayings
Connect words and
illustrations
e.g. what additional
information does the
illustration add?
Year 2 Individual Reading Assessment
Say what they have found out by
reading a book
Retrieve relevant details from
different paragraphs
Name:___________________________________________________________
AF3
Deduce, infer or interpret
information, events or ideas from
texts
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Use knowledge of the story so far Connect information together to
to make predictions about what will draw out implied meanings
happen next
Year 2 Individual Reading Assessment
Distinguish between more and less
important items of information
Use clues from what characters do
and say to explain their motives
Name:___________________________________________________________
AF4
Identify and comment on the structure and organisation of
texts, including grammatical and presentational features at
text level.
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Make use of the book conventions and organisational devices
to focus their reading,
e.g. index and glossary
Year 2 Individual Reading Assessment
Trace how ideas link and how a writer signals changes and
connections.
Name:___________________________________________________________
AF5
Explain and comment on the writers’ use of language,
including grammatical and literary features at word and
sentence level
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Comment on the specific words and how they convey
meaning,
e.g. ideas, characters, atmosphere
Year 2 Individual Reading Assessment
Discuss language patterns and how they contribute the
meaning
e.g. rhymes, repetition
Name:___________________________________________________________
AF6
Identify and comment on writers’ purposes and viewpoints,
and the overall effect of the text on the reader.
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Respond to the text overall and say what they liked/disliked
about it
Year 2 Individual Reading Assessment
Identify the main purpose of a text, using evidence from what
they have read.
Name:___________________________________________________________
AF7
Relate texts to their social, cultural and historical contexts
and literary traditions
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Identify traditional characters and settings in fiction
Year 2 Individual Reading Assessment
Relate the text to others
e.g. by a similar type, by the same author, ina series