PRIMARY 7 OBJECTIVES 

As with P6 plus -

1. Be able to respond critically to text using it to justify conclusions.
2. Show some engagement with text by expressing personal interest in and preference for text.
3. Show an awareness of authors using their work to model their own writing.
4. Use research skills to investigate a topic being studied. Have the ability to select appropriate information.
5. Begin to adopt personal opinions and draw conclusions from their reading.
6. Select and use appropriate information from a text.
7. Begin to show an awareness of empathy.
8. Be aware of a writers use of language and structure.
9. Use a range of vocabulary and appropriate language when referring to text.

RESOURCES FROM P1-P7

• Class libraries
• Reading scheme - Reading 360 and
• Extension Readers, factual and plays.
• Wide Range Readers
• Good range of class novels
• TV Programmes Storytime
• Words and Pictures
• Video tapes
• Stories on cassettes
• Computer software - My world
• Pendown
• Dictionaries
• Reference books
• Poetry books
• Nursery Rhymes - Ladybird books
• Class displays - own work
• Reading games
• Educational visits. e.g. trips to pantomime
• Audio visual aids.