VELS

 **Strategies for reading:** -techniques such as reading the cover and contents page when selecting texts -using computer technology to locate and explore information.  - predicting, checking, confirming and self-correcting using knowledge of a topic -browsing, skimming and scanning for key words and content ** Strategies for writing: **       -planning, composing, recording, editing and publishing -using word-processing and graphics programs to create, edit and publish texts - phonic, visual and morphemic strategies for attempting to spell unfamiliar words **The Progression Points from the VELS website for level 2·** ** WRITING- progression point 2.5 **  ·  composition of short texts of more than one paragraph to describe experiences, tell a story, express a point of view <span style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  appropriate ordering of events and ideas in print and electronic texts <span style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  compound sentences linking two ideas or events, with correct use of verb tenses <span style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  development of character, setting and plot in short narrative texts <span style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  correct use of full stops and question marks, and experimentation with other punctuation; for example, commas, quotation marks READING ** - **progression point 2.5** <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  use of strategies for reading texts with unfamiliar vocabulary and/or textual features such as captions for illustrations <span style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  understanding of main ideas in a range of informative and imaginative texts <span style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  recognition of connections between events in narrative texts <span style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  comparison of information presented in different texts about the same topic · <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">discussion of events and characters’ actions in imaginative texts in the light of their own experience <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leaning focus as they progress towards level three.  **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Children develop strategies  **