Yorkswood
Primary School
Reading
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In Year 5, we base the teaching of reading on 'VIPERS'. Each reading lesson focusses on one of the following skills: vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation, retrieval or summarising. We look at identifying the VIPER in questions and understanding how to approach an answer for that type of question.
The following document explains the skills further.
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