Dear Parent/Carer 

Your child is now on Reading Band Green Bean.  Thank you for encouraging your child to read.  

Targets 

• read different sorts of books – fiction and non-fiction 

• read at good speed using punctuation and expression 

• retell a story and be able to talk about the title, main events and the characters  

• use the contents page and glossary in non-fiction 

• talk about new words and what they mean 

Always 

• say, ‘Does it make sense, sound right and look right? 

• ask how the characters felt or why things happened 

• show how reading at a good pace makes it interesting 

• check they understand the ideas in non-fiction books