English // Reading Comprehension

Connecting reading to experience

Link what is read or heard to own experiences; draw on background knowledge and vocabulary to support understanding of texts

Ages
5 to 7
Type
Thinking skill
Builds on
3 topics
Leads to
1 topic
Standards
3 codes

Quick check

When the learner hears or reads a story about something familiar — like going to school or visiting a grandparent — do they connect it to their own life and use that to help understand what's happening?

Ask this to see whether the topic is secure.

Topic // Mastery

What mastery looks like

What a learner can do once this topic is secure.
  • Make text-to-self connections (e.g. 'This reminds me of when I...')
  • Use personal experience to understand a character's feelings
  • Relate events in a story to own life to deepen comprehension

Topic // Map

Where this fits

What to learn first and what this topic opens up, with the reason for each link. Required links come first.
  • RequiredMust come first
  • HelpfulHelps, but not essential

Before this

3 topics
  • Reading for MeaningHelpful

    English Thinking // Ages 5 to 6

    Linking reading to personal experience depends on approaching reading as a meaning-making activity

  • Listening to Texts Read AloudHelpful

    Reading Comprehension // Ages 5 to 10

    Personal connection emerges from comprehension

  • Thinking Before StartingHelpful

    Learning to Learn // Learning to Learn // Ages 6 to 7

    Linking reading to own experiences is the English-domain application of the universal prior-knowledge activation habit

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Connecting reading to experience

Ages 5 to 7 // Thinking skill

Leads to

1 topic

Topic // Standards

Curriculum standards

Codes for the curriculum statements this topic maps to. Each publisher owns its standard text.
The national curriculum in England: Key stages 1 and 2 framework document
Eng/KS1/Y2/C/2aEng_Y1_RC_02Eng_Y1_RC_07

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