Reading Stamina

Reading stamina is defined as your child’s ability to read accurately for a sustained period of time.

Reading stamina is actively promoted across school. It is expected that all children will read 90 words per minute of an age appropriate text from Year 2 onwards. Based on their year group, the children are given a passage to read within a set amount of time.

By the end of each academic year, it is expected that:

• In Year 1 children will read 60 words of an age appropriate text in one minute.
• In Year 2 children will read 270 words of an age appropriate text in three minutes.
• In Year 3 children will read 270 words of an age appropriate text in three minutes.
• In Year 4 children will read 360 words of an age appropriate text in four minutes.
• In Year 5 children will read 450 words of an age appropriate text in five minutes.
• In Year 6 children will read extended texts at 90 words per minute (in line with end of KS2 testing)

To help children achieve this, all children in Year 1 to 6 are to complete a reading speed assessment at the start of the year. Children need to read the given passage for their year group with the class teacher/TA. If they achieve 90 words or more in a minute, they do not need to be assessed further in this way; if they achieve less than 90 words, they should be implicitly targeted with 1:1 reading on a daily basis or speed-read interventions based on 60 second texts. They will then need to be assessed for their reading stamina at the end of each term.