Dear Parent/Carer 

Your child is now on Reading Band Dark Red Beetroot.  Thank you for encouraging your child to read.  

Targets 

• recommend books and give reasons for my choices 

• identify and discuss themes, conventions and language across a range of books 

• read and perform plays and poems showing understanding and making meaning clear to others 

• follow the stages of a process or argument 

Always 

• ask, ’Find more than one reason to support your opinion’ 

• ask, ‘Why would you recommend this book to others?’