Reading
Reading
At Thornhill Primary School, we believe that all pupils should leave us as confident, fluent readers. We recognise that reading is a key to unlocking the rest of the academic curriculum. Being an able reader significantly improves a child’s future academic achievement, wellbeing and success in life.
VIPERS
When teaching reading to Key Stage 2 we follow the VIPERS approach.
What are Vipers?
VIPERS is an acronym to aid the recall of the 6 reading domains as part of the UK’s reading curriculum. They are the key areas which we feel children need to know and understand in order to improve their comprehension of texts.
VIPERS stands for
Vocabulary
Inference
Prediction
Explanation
Retrieval
Sequence or Summarise
The 6 domains focus on the comprehension aspect of reading and not the mechanics: decoding, fluency, prosody etc. As such, VIPERS is not a reading scheme but rather a method of ensuring that teachers ask, and students are familiar with, a range of questions. They allow the teacher to track the type of questions asked and the children’s responses to these which allows for targeted questioning afterwards.
reading vipers question stems ks2 pdf.pdf
Reading Apps
The Reading Realm and The Poetry Realm are free apps that can be used on an iPad or tablet. They give children access to a variety of age related texts and quizzes about their reading.