About Phase 5 Books – Set 5

Set 5 books include more descriptive verbs to replace ‘said’. There is an increased proportion of space allocated to print rather than pictures. This book band includes words chosen for appropriateness and impact rather than decodability, however children will be required to recognise all Phase 5 graphemes. Paragraphs begin to develop and more unusual and challenging vocabulary is included.

How to support your child

Your child is now reading with greater fluency and expression. They may only need to decode complex, unfamiliar words. You can help them by:

• Encouraging them to read some pages silently, inside their heads.
• Listening to some pages read aloud, encouraging the use of expression and paying attention to punctuation marks.
• Talking about how events in the book relate to each other and helping your child to understand how the story builds up in a longer book.
• Asking them to tell you about interesting things they found out and showing you where the information is in the book.
• Linking the words that they are reading to their work in Phonics.

My Reading Targets

• I can extract meaning from the text while reading with less dependence on illustrations
• I can approach different genres with increasing confidence
• I can use punctuation and text layout to read with a greater range of expression and control
• I can sustain reading through longer sentence structures and paragraphs
• I can tackle a higher ratio of more complex words.
• I can read all of the Key Stage 1 High Frequency Words.
• I am beginning to monitor my own reading, checking and self-correcting whilst considering meaning
• I can use indexes, glossaries, contents, subheadings and dictionaries
• I can re-read my books to build up my fluency and confidence in word reading

I can recognise all of the following phonemes;

I can read all of these Phase 5 tricky words;