North Baddesley Infant School

Botley Road, North Baddesley, Southampton, SO52 9EE, United Kingdom
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Book Corner!

Welcome to our Book Corner page!

We do not have just one reading scheme in school as we believe children need to experience a range and variety of books. Our books are banded by colour according to difficulty and children work through the colour bands at their own rate. There is a range of books in each band and therefore some may be slightly harder or easier and yet still fit into a certain range. The colour bands are shown below - click on each band to see the expectations for each band.


  • Band  1 – Pink
    • (working towards Level 1 – WC/WB)
      • Find title
      • Open front cover
      • Turn pages properly
      • Understand that the left page comes before the right
      • Understand that we read from left to right
      • Point to each word as it is read – 1:1 correspondence
      • Use the meaning of the text
      • Use language patterns
      • Predict the story
      • Predict some unknown words
      • Recognise some letters by what they look like or sound like
      • Read one word for each word seen
  • Band  2 – Red
    • (Working towards level 1 – WA)
      • Find and remember title
      • Match written and spoken words 1:1
      • Use known words to help understand the sentence
      • Repeat words, phrases or sentences to check and be sure of understanding
      • Blend and read CVC words
      • Use phonic knowledge to attempt unknown words
      • Read on sight familiar and important words
      • Recognise 10 tricky words
  • Band  3 - Yellow
    • (1C)
      • Use punctuation to help reading
      • Notice familiar words and letter patterns and use these to help read new words
      • Find things that are the same or similar in different texts e.g. Curly the Caterpillar
      • Predict in more detail
      • Read on sight familiar and important words
      • Say what they do and don’t like about a text
      • Talk about stories and other texts identifying main points and themes
      • Use phonic knowledge to attempt unknown words
      • Read to the end of a sentence to work out an unfamiliar word
      • Read about 15 tricky key words
  • Band  4 - Blue
    • (1C)
      • Take notice of meaning, words and sentence structure, to help us read
      • Self correct more quickly during reading
      • Re-read to make the text sound more interesting and to help us understand it
      • Solve new words using different clues – meaning of the sentence, known words, letter patterns, using what you already know about a word or sentence
      • Read a wide range of books and types of text
      • Talk about the book and show we have understood
      • Use awareness of grammar to help decipher new or unfamiliar words
      • Blend phonemes to read words containing consonant clusters and long vowel phonemes
      • Read about 20 tricky words
      • Identify and discuss main events and key points in a text
  • Band  5 - Green
    • (1B)
      • Read fluently noticing punctuation
      • Read familiar texts aloud with fluency and expression appropriate to the grammar
      • Solve new words using a range of clues and investigating words that fit
      • Track lines of text without finger pointing
      • Read a range of texts
      • Talk about the character and story plot in detail
      • Blend phonemes to read words containing consonant clusters and long vowel phonemes
      • Sustain independent reading to complete texts
      • Locate specific information in a text to find the answers (retrieval)
      • Understand how simple diagrams and charts add information
      • Relate story setting and incidents to own experience
  • Band  6 - Orange
    • (1A)
      • Read more complex sentences
      • Solve new words using a range of clues and cross check
      • Notice a range of punctuation
      • Infer meaning and work out what the author is suggesting
      • Recognise the full range of vowel digraphs and trigraphs
      • Identify syllables in order to read polysyllabic words
  • Band  7 - Turquoise
    • (1A)
      • Read different genres more confidently
      • Use punctuation and text layout to read expressively
      • Keep reading through longer sentences and paragraphs
      • Work out and tackle a larger number of more difficult words
      • Recognise common prefixes and suffixes and regular verb endings to construct the meaning of words in context
      • Make simple inferences about thoughts, feelings and reasons for actions
  • Band  8 - Purple
    • (2C)
      • Look at lots of different texts with independence and predict
      • Read silently at a good pace, using punctuation to help
      • Work out most unknown words “on the run”
      • Identify some literary effects writers use e.g. good adjectives
      • Use reading to extend speaking and listening
      • Understand how to use alphabetically ordered texts to retrieve information, written vocabulary
      • Scan the text to find specific answers
      • Make simple inferences about thoughts, feelings and reasons for actions
  • Band  9 - Gold
    • (2B)
      • Confidently predict the content and layout of a text by looking through
      • Read silently at a rapid pace, using punctuation to help
      • Work out most unknown words "on the run"
      • Take notice of literary effects writers use
      • Use reading to extend speaking and written vocabulary
      • Read aloud with intonation and expression, taking account of the punctuation e.g. speech marks and exclamation marks
      • Generate questions before reading and use bibliographical knowledge to help retrieve specific information
      • Identify how ideas link and how a writer does this
  • Band 10 - White
    • (2A)
      • Read silently most of the time
      • Stay interested in longer texts and returns to them easily after a break
      • Search for and find information in texts easily
      • Notice the spelling of unknown words and relate to new words
      • More aware of vocabulary and exact meanings
      • Discuss and offer own opinions and ideas about the text
      • Begin to understand the effects of different words and phrases e.g. to create humour, images and atmosphere
      • Evaluate the usefulness of the information in particular texts for answering questions
      • Understand the deeper un-stated meaning of a text
  • Band 11 - Lime
    • (L3)
      • Recognise a range of prefixes and suffixes to construct the meanings of words in context
      • Recognise the function of the apostrophe for omission and pronounce contracted forms correctly
      • Recognise a full range of consonant digraphs e.g. kn, wr, ph
      • Understand how pronouns in 1st, 2nd and 3rd person forms are used in sentences and apply this info to maintain understanding when reading
      • Know how language is used to create effects e.g. adjectives and adverbs and use to create detailed mental images
      • Understand the difference between prose and play script
      • Explore underlying themes and ideas, making clear reference to text
      • Discuss the actions of the main characters and justify views using evidence from the text (f)
      • Sustain silent reading to include longer, more complex texts
      • Draw on knowledge of authors and types of books they write to inform choices
      • Understand how dialogue is punctuated and laid out and read with appropriate expression
      • Read aloud with intonation and expression taking account of punctuation e.g. commas to mark pauses
      • When reading aloud show awareness and understanding of the different voices in stories (f)
      • Read aloud confidently to an audience e.g. playscript, performance poem or favourite passage from a text
      • Understand how to use indexes to locate specific info
      • Use bibliographical knowledge e.g. indexes to locate specific info
      • Understand the features of page layout in non-fiction texts e.g. subheadings, labels, diagrams, charts (nf)
      • Identify the main point and summarise orally the content of a passage of text (nf)
      • Use notes to summarise the main points from a passage of text (nf)
      • Evaluate the usefulness of information e.g. follow instructions to see if they work (nf)